1. heuristic - Noun
2. heuristic - Adjective
Serving to discover or find out.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt 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