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As an adjective, it may enable a person to discover or learn something for themselves. As a noun, it can be a process or method. | As an adjective, it may enable a person to discover or learn something for themselves. As a noun, it can be a process or method. | ||
If something is unknown, to abstract or difficult to understand you may use a term that is "good enough" as a heuristic to temporarily describe or identify that thing or idea. But if the definition is not "good enough" it may produce "cognitive biases" and error. Heuristics may be used in the quest for [[right reason]]. | If something is unknown, to abstract or difficult to understand you may use a term that is "good enough" as a heuristic to temporarily describe or identify that thing or idea. But if the definition is not "good enough" it may produce "[[Cognitive dissonance|cognitive biases]]" and error. Heuristics may be used in the quest for [[right reason]]. | ||
The most fundamental heuristic process is ''trial and error'', which can be used in everything from matching nuts and bolts to finding the values of variables in algebra problems. | The most fundamental heuristic process is ''trial and error'', which can be used in everything from matching nuts and bolts to finding the values of variables in algebra problems. | ||
Revision as of 08:59, 28 May 2019
The term "Heuristic" can have more than one meaning.
As an adjective, it may enable a person to discover or learn something for themselves. As a noun, it can be a process or method.
If something is unknown, to abstract or difficult to understand you may use a term that is "good enough" as a heuristic to temporarily describe or identify that thing or idea. But if the definition is not "good enough" it may produce "cognitive biases" and error. Heuristics may be used in the quest for right reason.
The most fundamental heuristic process is trial and error, which can be used in everything from matching nuts and bolts to finding the values of variables in algebra problems.
Heuristics may include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, a guesstimate, profiling, or common sense. There are many labeled heuristics availability, representativeness, familiarity, and anchoring... as an example affect heuristic is the notion that people often make decisions based on their feelings or emotions about the topic at hand.
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