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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Imre Lakatos
Negative, Heuristics, Research
Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

Imre Lakatos
Would Be, Heuristics, Research
Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Wilhelm Wundt
Views, Psychology, Heuristics
Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Mark Jason Dominus
Heuristics, Fancy, Way
"My Life With Spam". www.perl.com. February 9, 2000.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Daniel Kahneman
Essence, Difficult Questions, Heuristics
Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.16, Macmillan

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Daniel Kahneman
Heuristics, Shortcuts, Produce

Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

Steve McConnell
Fun, Guarantees, Heuristics
Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.12, Pearson Education

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

Woody Allen
Mistake, Simple, Heuristics

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

Ernst Mayr
Issues, Criticism, Heuristics

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