NL888I have heard it called 'thinking above the curve'. And it's that; I have heard it called the 'over-logic', and it's that too. Whatever you call it,
There's nothing in the context you've supplied that tells us what
it is. I get the impression, in fact, that the author is about to tell us what
it is just at the point where you stopped quoting the text.
In any case the expressions in single quotes are simply different names for whatever it is. The text itself defines the terms (later, I suspect).
Compare:
I've heard it called a 'mibulact', and I've heard it called a 'tulaqualog', and I've heard it called a 'sixtuballic phremostat', but to me it's simply a triangle.
CJ