heuristic

Speech parts

1. heuristic - Noun

2. heuristic - Adjective

Meaning

Serving to discover or find out.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heuristic program heuristic rule active pilot pedagogic actual practical interested educational empirical analytical questioning doubtful investigative exploratory
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Antonyms

algorithmic false theoretical obscure ineffective hypothetical
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Hypernyms

rule formula

Hyponyms

lateral thinking

Phrases with the word

problem-solving heuristic availability heuristic heuristic procedure

Examples

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. Imre Lakatos

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. Imre Lakatos

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. Imre Lakatos

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. Wilhelm Wundt

We need heuristic reasoning when we construct a strict proof as we need scaffolding when we erect a building. George Pólya

Models of bounded rationality describe how a judgement or decision is reached (that is, the heuristic processes or proximal mechanisms) rather than merely the outcome of the decision, and they describe the class of environments in which these heuristics will succeed or fail. Reinhard Selten

Close letter words and terms

heuretic Heuring heurism heuristic procedure heuristic program heuristic rule