A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. Concerning discovery, as against proof. Heuristics is the study of methods and discovery. A heuristic is a procedure for achieving a result which does not consist simply in applying certain general rules which are guaranteed to lead to the result in question. Contrast ALGORITHM.
G.Polya, How to Solve It, Princeton UP, 1945, 1957, 1971, Doubleday, 1957.
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