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adjective

Heuristic adj.

Serving to promote discovery or learning; used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences.

Serving to stimulate people to learn and discover on their own, especially by encouraging experimental and trial-and-error methods for solving problems.

Pertaining to or based on trial-and-error and experimental methods of learning and evaluation.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Heuristic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heuristic" Quotes from Famous Books

... which is complete a priori, the other forbidding us ever to hope for the attainment of this completeness, that is, to regard no member of the empirical world as unconditioned. In this mode of viewing them, both principles, in their purely heuristic and regulative character, and as concerning merely the formal interest of reason, are quite consistent with each other. The one says: "You must philosophize upon nature," as if there existed a necessary ...

— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant

... teaching—though I am certain he would have been scared out of his wits by an average Board School class in half-an-hour—and so far as I can remember now, he was propounding an improvement of Professor Armstrong's Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds' worth of apparatus, a total neglect of all other studies and the undivided attention of a teacher of exceptional gifts, an average child might with a peculiar ...

— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

Words linked to "Heuristic" : formula, heuristic program, trial-and-error