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[Hock]

Heuristic (from the Greek "Εὑρίσκω" for "find" or "discover") is an adjective for experience-based techniques that help in problem solving, learning and discovery. A heuristic method is particularly used to rapidly come to a solution that is hoped to be close to the best possible answer, or 'optimal solution'. Heuristics are "rules of thumb", educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense. A heuristic is a general way of solving a problem. Heuristics as a noun is another name for heuristic methods. In more precise terms, heuristics stand for strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings and machines."

Intersting huh? New word for me in a psych book I am reading. More on this important term later....

Hock

[Kentbob]

Ah, thanks for posting this Hock.  I kept wondering what this word meant.  I actually ran across it in....science fiction.  I guess if I wasn't such a lazy slob I'd have looked it up myself.

Kent

[grlaun]

Cool!  We need to have Howling Commando Vocabulary!