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adjective
1.
serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
2.
encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method.
3.
of, pertaining to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.
4.
Computers, Mathematics. pertaining to a trial-and-error method of problem solving used when an algorithmic approach is impractical.
noun
5.
a heuristic method of argument.
6.
the study of heuristic procedure.
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Heuristics
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Origin:
1815–25; < Neo-Latin heuristicus, equivalent to Greek heur(ískein) to find out, discover + Latin -isticus -istic
1815–25; < Neo-Latin heuristicus, equivalent to Greek heur(ískein) to find out, discover + Latin -isticus -istic
Related forms
heu·ris·ti·cal·ly, adverb
non·heu·ris·tic, adjective
un·heu·ris·tic, adjective
un·heu·ris·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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- Ideas and insights bubble up from some hidden layer of intuitions and heuristics.
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| heuristics (hjʊəˈrɪstɪks) | |
| —n | |
| (functioning as singular) maths, logic algorithm See also artificial intelligence a method or set of rules for solving problems other than by algorithm | |
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