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discovery procedure

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noun

Linguistics.

  1. any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.

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Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek coined the phrase "competition as a discovery procedure," and he pointed out that "competition is important only because … its outcomes are unpredictable."

From US News • Jun. 13, 2016

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