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Heuristic   /hjʊrˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Heuristic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation.
noun
1.
A commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem.  Synonyms: heuristic program, heuristic rule.



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"Heuristic" Quotes from Famous Books



... encountered in science teaching. Heuristic methods have been devised to meet the difficulty. Though they are no doubt psychologically sound, they tend to be very slow in results; hence the common jibe that a boy may learn as much by them in five years as he could learn out of a shilling ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark
... me to admit the validity of the hypothesis of Descent as an heuristic maxim of natural science. I believe that we shall be justified in the future, as we were forty years ago, in directing our investigation in the direction of Descent, and I do not consider such investigation so utterly hopeless as Fleischmann represents it. However, ...
— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert
... difficulty of Heuristic in different parts of History—to be kept in view when choosing ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois


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