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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



... the sun," but accepting that fact, he rejects such of his conclusions as are obviously irreconcilable with it. Surely this is plain common sense and the man who acted otherwise would be setting himself a quite impossible task. It is the weakness of the "heuristic method" that it sets its pupils to find out things which many abler men have spent years in investigating. The man who sets out to make a research, without first ascertaining what others have done in that direction, proposes to accumulate in himself the abilities ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle


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