heuristics
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At the very least, these models are useful heuristics amid extreme uncertainty—and right now, we need all the good heuristics we can get.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
The default heuristics are intended to help the user get started.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
But the evidence also shows that many voters use heuristics and other decision-making shortcuts to reason their way through complex questions of politics.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2022
When faced with a hard problem, we use mental shortcuts called heuristics to help us make decisions without fully understanding everything about the problem we’re facing.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2022
Innate heuristics Conceptual tools that can be used to refer to the human being in its syncretic condition exist only to the degree to which we identify them in language.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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