The intelligence involved in playing chess feels like a vertical sort of intelligence, penetrating deeply into the logical consequences of the game, while Jeopardy! requires a horizontal thought process, thinking shallowly but expansively over a large data base.
It is time we gave serious thought to the horizontal versus the vertical.
"E-mail is horizontal power; it represents horizontal thinking.
The common bit, or "fishtail" is a horizontal slit thought which one draws in smoke.
Find out your horizontal aim.
The sheen and texture of cars, Tarmac, glass, brickwork, are all intensified by the dizzying horizontal and vertical perspectives: tall buildings and straight roads along which we zoom at the speed of thought.
Its collection of Akutagawa stories, named for his classic short piece "The Spider's Thread," has horizontal blue-gray text and, for cover art, an image of a slender uniformed schoolgirl, lost in thought.
The horizontal row to the right of each context represents the truth conditions or broad content Oscar's thought has if it originated in the indicated context.
What is necessarily true might be the epistemic content, the thought, the "meaning" in some intuitive sense that differs from the semantic value captured by the horizontal dimension, or something else.
