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Heuristic   /hjʊrˈɪstɪk/   Listen
adjective
Heuristic  adj.  
1.
Serving to promote discovery or learning; used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.
2.
Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems.
3.
Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation.
4.
(Computers) Based on the use of an efficient trial-and error method to search a space of possible solutions to a problem, or to find an acceptable approximate solution, when an exact algorithmic method is unavailable or too time-consuming.


noun
Heuristic  n.  
1.
A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.
2.
A theory or approach which serves to promote discovery or learning by encouraging experimentation.





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"Heuristic" Quotes from Famous Books



... a definite mathematical condition that the theory of relativity demands of a natural law, and in virtue of this, the theory becomes a valuable heuristic aid in the search for general laws of nature. If a general law of nature were to be found which did not satisfy this condition, then at least one of the two fundamental assumptions of the theory would have been disproved. ...
— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein
... exceptional man can do ever and again for display purposes can be done successfully day by day in schools. This applies to many other things besides the teaching of ethics. Professor Armstrong can give delightfully instructive lessons in chemistry according to the heuristic method, but in the hands of the average teacher by whom teaching must be done for the next few years the heuristic system will result in nothing but a pointless fumble. Mr. Mackinder teaches geography—inimitably—just to show how to do it. Mr. David Devant—the ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... definite mathematical condition that the theory of relativity demands of a natural law, and in virtue of this, the theory becomes a valuable heuristic aid in the search for general laws of nature. If a general law of nature were to be found which did not satisfy this condition, then at least one of the two fundamental assumptions of the theory would have been disproved. Let us now examine what general results the latter ...
— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein


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