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• n  a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem
• a  of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation

• That falls in line with what Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come .
• He also charges that the book "attempts heuristic allegory but fails, giving gratification only to sadist-homosexuals and challenge only to taxonomists of perversion.
• In 2002, he and Gerd Gigerenzer, a psychologist at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for Human Development, dubbed this effect the recognition heuristic and started detailing how it is .

• heuristic rule
• heuristic program

• algorithmic

News & Articles

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• “M.I.C.E an N.M.E.”
  Who controls Stratford’s politics? Act 1, Scene 2: “M.I.C.E. an N.M.E.” Speculative-Heuristic: Hamartia epiphany! Anagnorisis catharsis? *Clauswitz: “War is politics by other means.”
  June 20, 2013 - Stratford Star
• Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board™ (SPCB™) Partners with Heuristic to Launch CSP™ Credentialing Management System
  TAMPA, Fla., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board™ (SPCB™) is pleased to announce that they have contracted with Heuristic Solutions to implement the LearningBuilder™ credentialing management system for the...
  June 17, 2013 - PR Newswire

Quotes

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• Gerd Gigerenzer in Salon
  In other words, instead of computing the ball's trajectory, all you have to do is keep your eye on it -- "the heuristic leads the player to the landing point," Gigerenzer writes.