Maybe thinking about Dr. Edward D Bono and his Lateral thinking
Provocation Idea Generating Tool
A provocation is a statement that we know is wrong or impossible but is used to create new ideas. De Bono gives an example of considering river pollution and setting up the provocation "the factory is downstream of itself"; this leads to the idea of forcing a factory to take its water input from a point downstream of its output, an idea which later became law in some countries.[6]
Provocations can be set up by the use of any of the provocation techniques—wishful thinking, exaggeration, reversal, escape, distortion, or arising.
The thinker creates a list of provocations and then uses the most outlandish ones to move their thinking forward to new ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking