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Definition of heuristic in English: heuristicadjective ˌhjʊ(ə)ˈrɪstɪkhjuˈrɪstɪk 1Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves. a ‘hands-on’ or interactive heuristic approach to learning Example sentencesExamples - For any method, or any explanatory theory, to be useful (i.e. have heuristic value) it must be internally consistent and relevant.
- I also found this study loaded with useful heuristic encapsulations, and often entertaining in its wide-ranging choices for analysis, from early cinema to the present.
- Emotions, he says, are ‘our main heuristic guide to discovering moral truths’.
- This work will follow two complementary approaches, heuristic and machine learning.
- The appeal of this model lies in its simplicity, logic and heuristic potential (ability to aid discovery).
- However, the deity's heuristic role in prompting scientific thought should not be confused with its validation.
- They're heuristic, providing a medical shorthand, but a shorthand which only goes so far.
- It is probably true that qualitative methods, heuristic approaches, and phenomenological research are more common in education than in the physical and biological sciences.
- Yet regardless of such formalist elisions, this essay remains enlightening precisely for its heuristic clarity.
- The larger issue here (and it's an issue which arises from the whole genre of literary biography as it is often currently practised) is the heuristic poverty of biographical explanations of works of art.
- When we use the term ‘discourses’ we refer to a heuristic device which enables us to talk about configurations of metaphors, analogies and connotations.
- Where he does develop the first attitude, here and elsewhere in his theology, Christian doctrines are heuristic devices, to be held ‘in principle.’
- On the other hand, when I was reading ‘Process and Reality’, I was puzzled by what its epistemological implications were supposed to be, given its overall heuristic intent.
- The heuristic value of a multifactorial approach, illustrated here, should be broadly applicable to studies assessing the quantitative and qualitative implications of various forms of comorbidity.
- But historians will be uncomfortable with Gleason's frequent recourse to terms like the frontier, corporate capitalism, and industrialization as explanatory or heuristic devices.
- We conclude that condition is a useful heuristic concept in evolutionary ecology, but its practical value may be limited by the fact that it cannot be measured directly.
- However, this historical fallacy does not, perhaps, detract from its heuristic usefulness.
- Although spatial intuition or observation remains the source of the axioms of Euclidean geometry, in Hilbert's writing the role of intuition and observation is explicitly limited to motivation and is heuristic.
- The anti-Darwinist seems to believe that a scientific theory should elicit that sort of faith, whereas the Darwinist requires only that we come to see that theory's social and heuristic usefulness.
- But I do agree that as a rhetorical technique, it can have great impact and as a cognitive tool it may have a great heuristic value.
Synonyms informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling - 1.1Computing Proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined.
Example sentencesExamples - The tools include a combination of heuristic rules-based scanning, white and black lists, content filtering and SMTP-based authentication to keep out unwanted mail.
- Scam Sensor uses a proprietary heuristic algorithm to identify fraudulent e-mails.
- His research interests include evolutionary computation, heuristic optimization, policy and strategic analysis, and social algorithms.
- Other iterative heuristic rules that have been commonly used include the prioritization of sites by the rarity of the surrogates present in them.
- Using its rule base, SA performs a wide range of heuristic tests on email headers and body text to identify and score spam.
noun ˌhjʊ(ə)ˈrɪstɪkhjuˈrɪstɪk 1A heuristic process or method. Example sentencesExamples - Possible explanations for that finding can be drawn from both the heuristics and biases and the ecological schools of thought.
- Here are the heuristics we use in determining what level someone is at.
- While cognitive heuristics allow one to economize on search costs, they also lead to errors.
- I am optimistic that the articles will serve as a heuristic, or learning tool, for teachers who want to become more effective in their classrooms through reflection.
- As a consequence, the heuristics used are not necessarily the best available.
- Managerial actions are based on decision-making heuristics triggered and altered by stimuli such as innovations.
- Like everything else in sociology, it's a fuzzy heuristic.
- This heuristic is currently the most commonly used for delimiting sessions.
- Well, it's a standard heuristic for checking search engines - it's like looking up swear words to check how good a new dictionary is.
- The principal heuristic used is complementarity.
- Social proof is a heuristic by which we ‘view a behavior as correct in a given situation to the degree to which we see others performing it.’
- The connectedness requirement is, of course, merely a heuristic that might not result in the intended model.
- In practice we use many heuristics, or rules of thumb, to guide our thinking.
- A heuristic, as defined by Anderson, is a rule of thumb that often (but not always) leads to a solution.
- The system uses blacklists, heuristics, and NetIQ filters to identify spam.
- Behavioural scientists suggest that in practice decision makers utilize mental shortcuts known as heuristics.
- Presumably this is to get around some of the heuristics used by spam filters, such as checking that a message isn't largely HTML, appears to contain actual content, etc.
- It should be pointed out that this process is a heuristic.
- For example, if one confronts a novel problem that is ill-defined, then general problem-solving heuristics may be very useful.
- Over time, the behaviorists have compiled a long list of biases and heuristics.
- 1.1heuristicsusually treated as singular The study and use of heuristic techniques.
Example sentencesExamples - A serious problem with ‘mathematical idea analysis’ is that heuristics cannot distinguish true results from false ones.
- An example is the use in military affairs of an ancient enough science, heuristics.
- It is not the only viable path of knowledge available to you as a human being (logic, intuition, heuristics, etc. will also get you to interesting and useful places, knowledge-wise).
- In fact, McLuhan's pedagogy of heuristics argues that students raised in the electronic age must see themselves as more than the restricted definition of ‘student.’
- This is an application of heuristics, learning from practical experience.
Derivatives adverb My layered theoretical approach, moving heuristically from individuals to social relationships to wider social structures, was reflected in the multiple readings employed within this analytic strategy. Example sentencesExamples - In this she was speaking tactically, heuristically, in a spirit of experiment: if one did this, what would happen?
- The number of sessions needed and the type of treatment carried out were determined heuristically, depending partly on the nature of the symptoms and partly on patients' priorities.
- By restricting the search space heuristically, the algorithms can handle larger number of sequences.
- Although heuristically valuable, their utility is limited by their qualitative nature.
Origin Early 19th century: formed irregularly from Greek heuriskein 'find'. Definition of heuristic in US English: heuristicadjectivehyo͞oˈristikhjuˈrɪstɪk 1Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves. a “hands-on” or interactive heuristic approach to learning Example sentencesExamples - Emotions, he says, are ‘our main heuristic guide to discovering moral truths’.
- Although spatial intuition or observation remains the source of the axioms of Euclidean geometry, in Hilbert's writing the role of intuition and observation is explicitly limited to motivation and is heuristic.
- On the other hand, when I was reading ‘Process and Reality’, I was puzzled by what its epistemological implications were supposed to be, given its overall heuristic intent.
- The anti-Darwinist seems to believe that a scientific theory should elicit that sort of faith, whereas the Darwinist requires only that we come to see that theory's social and heuristic usefulness.
- But I do agree that as a rhetorical technique, it can have great impact and as a cognitive tool it may have a great heuristic value.
- But historians will be uncomfortable with Gleason's frequent recourse to terms like the frontier, corporate capitalism, and industrialization as explanatory or heuristic devices.
- We conclude that condition is a useful heuristic concept in evolutionary ecology, but its practical value may be limited by the fact that it cannot be measured directly.
- The larger issue here (and it's an issue which arises from the whole genre of literary biography as it is often currently practised) is the heuristic poverty of biographical explanations of works of art.
- They're heuristic, providing a medical shorthand, but a shorthand which only goes so far.
- This work will follow two complementary approaches, heuristic and machine learning.
- However, the deity's heuristic role in prompting scientific thought should not be confused with its validation.
- However, this historical fallacy does not, perhaps, detract from its heuristic usefulness.
- Where he does develop the first attitude, here and elsewhere in his theology, Christian doctrines are heuristic devices, to be held ‘in principle.’
- I also found this study loaded with useful heuristic encapsulations, and often entertaining in its wide-ranging choices for analysis, from early cinema to the present.
- The appeal of this model lies in its simplicity, logic and heuristic potential (ability to aid discovery).
- For any method, or any explanatory theory, to be useful (i.e. have heuristic value) it must be internally consistent and relevant.
- When we use the term ‘discourses’ we refer to a heuristic device which enables us to talk about configurations of metaphors, analogies and connotations.
- It is probably true that qualitative methods, heuristic approaches, and phenomenological research are more common in education than in the physical and biological sciences.
- Yet regardless of such formalist elisions, this essay remains enlightening precisely for its heuristic clarity.
- The heuristic value of a multifactorial approach, illustrated here, should be broadly applicable to studies assessing the quantitative and qualitative implications of various forms of comorbidity.
Synonyms informative, instructional, informational, illuminating, enlightening, revealing, explanatory, telling - 1.1Computing Proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined.
Example sentencesExamples - The tools include a combination of heuristic rules-based scanning, white and black lists, content filtering and SMTP-based authentication to keep out unwanted mail.
- Scam Sensor uses a proprietary heuristic algorithm to identify fraudulent e-mails.
- Other iterative heuristic rules that have been commonly used include the prioritization of sites by the rarity of the surrogates present in them.
- His research interests include evolutionary computation, heuristic optimization, policy and strategic analysis, and social algorithms.
- Using its rule base, SA performs a wide range of heuristic tests on email headers and body text to identify and score spam.
nounhyo͞oˈristikhjuˈrɪstɪk 1A heuristic process or method. Example sentencesExamples - As a consequence, the heuristics used are not necessarily the best available.
- I am optimistic that the articles will serve as a heuristic, or learning tool, for teachers who want to become more effective in their classrooms through reflection.
- The principal heuristic used is complementarity.
- Social proof is a heuristic by which we ‘view a behavior as correct in a given situation to the degree to which we see others performing it.’
- Behavioural scientists suggest that in practice decision makers utilize mental shortcuts known as heuristics.
- It should be pointed out that this process is a heuristic.
- In practice we use many heuristics, or rules of thumb, to guide our thinking.
- Over time, the behaviorists have compiled a long list of biases and heuristics.
- The connectedness requirement is, of course, merely a heuristic that might not result in the intended model.
- The system uses blacklists, heuristics, and NetIQ filters to identify spam.
- Here are the heuristics we use in determining what level someone is at.
- While cognitive heuristics allow one to economize on search costs, they also lead to errors.
- A heuristic, as defined by Anderson, is a rule of thumb that often (but not always) leads to a solution.
- Like everything else in sociology, it's a fuzzy heuristic.
- Well, it's a standard heuristic for checking search engines - it's like looking up swear words to check how good a new dictionary is.
- Managerial actions are based on decision-making heuristics triggered and altered by stimuli such as innovations.
- Presumably this is to get around some of the heuristics used by spam filters, such as checking that a message isn't largely HTML, appears to contain actual content, etc.
- For example, if one confronts a novel problem that is ill-defined, then general problem-solving heuristics may be very useful.
- Possible explanations for that finding can be drawn from both the heuristics and biases and the ecological schools of thought.
- This heuristic is currently the most commonly used for delimiting sessions.
- 1.1heuristicsusually treated as singular The study and use of heuristic techniques.
Example sentencesExamples - This is an application of heuristics, learning from practical experience.
- It is not the only viable path of knowledge available to you as a human being (logic, intuition, heuristics, etc. will also get you to interesting and useful places, knowledge-wise).
- A serious problem with ‘mathematical idea analysis’ is that heuristics cannot distinguish true results from false ones.
- In fact, McLuhan's pedagogy of heuristics argues that students raised in the electronic age must see themselves as more than the restricted definition of ‘student.’
- An example is the use in military affairs of an ancient enough science, heuristics.
Origin Early 19th century: formed irregularly from Greek heuriskein ‘find’. |