#heuristic

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

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

— Imre Lakatos

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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

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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

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