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	Heuristic reasoning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heuristic reasoning is often based on induction, or on analogy; see induction and mathematical induction, and analogy, 8, 9, 10.
		A heuristic argument presented with taste and frankness may be useful; it may prepare for the rigorous argument of which it usually contains certain germs.
		But a heuristic argument is likely to be harmful if it is presented ambiguously with visible hesitation between shame and pretension.
	webpages.charter.net /rivendell/heuristics/heuristic_reasoning.htm (224 words)

	Persuasion Publication, Steve Booth-Butterfield
		Argument quality was not manipulated and thus it is not possible to determine whether receivers were using the source attribute (heuristic processing) or the message arguments (systematic processing).
		Argument quality had little impact with the low credible source, but generated differential ratings of credibility, involvement, and effort for the high credible source.
		This implies that the heuristic interpretation may still be correct and that predicted cue main effects could not be obtained because the manipulation was weak.
	www.as.wvu.edu /~sbb/comm221/publics/modality.htm (6236 words)

	Glossary of Common CYC® Terminology
		The term "argument" is also used to refer to a reason why an assertion is present in the KB with its truth value.
		Arguments are of two main types: the first type of argument is essentially a statement that the formula was explicitly "asserted" (or "local").
		Argumentation is the process of weighing various arguments, pro and con, for the truth of an assertion, and arriving at a truth value for the assertion.
	www.cyc.com /cycdoc/ref/glossary.html (5592 words)

	CRISP Volume 10 No. 6
		Additionally, argument quality and topic relevance were varied as further experimental factors: The message comprised either strong or weak arguments and the institutionalization of the exams was either said to be considered in one year (high relevance) or in ten years (low relevance).
		However, argument quality was expected to have an indirect effect on the attitude, that is, an effect that is mediated by perceived communicator expertise (hypothesis 3).
		The arguments were selected from a list of potential arguments produced by five students who were interested in the topic and had participated in the discussion of the renewal of the credit point system.
	www.uiowa.edu /~grpproc/crisp/crisp.10.6.html (5258 words)

	Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence - - -Marvin Minsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The adjective "heuristic," as used here and widely in the literature, means related to improving problem-solving performance; as a noun it is also used in regard to any method or trick used to improve the efficiency of a problem-solving system.
		Note 1: The adjective "heuristic," as used here and widely in the literature, means related to improving problem-solving performance; as a noun it is also used in regard to any method or trick used to improve the efficiency of a problem-solving system.
		Heuristically, its great virtue is this: the sampling effort (for determining the direction of the gradient) grows, in a sense, only linearly with the number of parameters.
	web.media.mit.edu /~minsky/papers/steps.html (14267 words)

	The elusive concept of a mathematical proof - Numericana
		Heuristic arguments merely establish the likelihood of general conjectures.
		A good heuristic argument must be supported with convincing justifications of the probabilistic assumptions underlaying the model.
		A heuristical argument is never foolfproof (or else it would be a proper mathematical proof) but it should be nearly so...
	home.att.net /~numericana/answer/proof.htm (748 words)

	heuristictwo.html
		Now that you have your definitional claim established, your X and Y terms, and your research underway, this heuristic is intended to help you put pen to paper and to begin organizing and structuring your definitional argument.
		Remember, an enthymeme is the core of your argument and consists of your claim supported by reasons (attached to your claim with because clauses).
		This part of the heuristic is due on Monday, 9/16 along with your rough draft.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aoneal/heuristictwo.html (797 words)

	Heuristic argument -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heuristic argument -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		An heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental (especially (Click link for more info and facts about trial-and-error) trial-and-error) investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.
		A widely-used and important example of a heuristic argument is (Click link for more info and facts about Occam's razor) Occam's razor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heuristic_argument.htm (104 words)

	PlanetMath: regular prime
		Based on this criterion it is possible to give a heuristic argument that the regular primes have density
		Despite this, there is no known proof that the set of regular primes is infinite, although it is known that there are infinitely many irregular primes.
		Cross-references: infinite, density, argument, multiple, Bernoulli numbers, numerators, class, exponent, Fermat's last theorem, root of unity, primitive, divisible, field, class number, regular, prime
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/RegularPrime.html (243 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Realistic and practical situation: Imagining as many opposing arguments* as possible; Prioritizing the possible opposing arguments* and select the ones which you judge to be necessary for your argument.
		Heuristic: List the pro and con arguments* which are relevant to your issue.
		Summarize the argument you are going to refute or state the positions you are calling into question.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /course/76-101qt/Refutation.txt (611 words)

	Common mistakes in First Problem Set
		A proof needs to consider all possibilities for A', not just those A' which resemble your A. The heuristic argument "any set which has more than one element 'eliminates' more elements than it needs to" is a good way to think about the problem, but should be made more rigorous.
		A pigeonhole argument could be made to work if you were careful about what you were claiming.
		Some people gave heuristic arguments, which was all right, but then neglected to mention the sample space or event at all.
	www.cs.cornell.edu /Courses/cs280/2005sp/PSCommentsForPrelim2.html (3407 words)

	Sensei's Library: Heuristic
		Due to the large size of the Go board, players often use heuristics, either consciously or unconsciously, to decide where they should play.
		It is common to use heuristics when recognizing an eye, even though there are exceptions to such heuristics.
		At the same time, many proverbs serve as heuristics, and players are advised not to follow proverbs blindly.
	senseis.xmp.net /?Heuristic (197 words)

	Nick Bostrom's home page
		We present a heuristic for correcting for one kind of bias (status quo bias), which we suggest affects many of our judgments about the consequences of modifying human nature.
		We apply this heuristic to the case of cognitive enhancements, and argue that the consequentialist case for this is much stronger than commonly recognized.
		The Doomsday argument purports to prove, from basic probability theory and a few seemingly innocuous empirical premises, that the risk that our species will go extinct soon is much greater than previously thought.
	www.nickbostrom.com (3095 words)

	The Prime Glossary: heuristic argument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A heuristic is something "providing aid in the direction of the solution of a problem but otherwise unjustified or incapable of justification." So heuristic arguments are used to show what we might later attempt to prove, or what we might expect to find in a computer run.
		In the above naive heuristic argument several unjustified assumptions were made.
		If we apply the same argument above to the Mersenne numbers, then we get a divergent sum, so it seems likely that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes.
	primes.utm.edu /glossary/page.php?sort=Heuristic (186 words)

	heuristic - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Computer Science Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program.
		A rule of thumb, simplification, or educated guess that reduces or limits the search for solutions in domains that are difficult and poorly understood.
		Unlike algorithms, heuristics do not guarantee optimal, or even feasible, solutions and are often used with no theoretical guarantee.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/heuristic (366 words)

	The intelligent reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		First, to see that the present step of the argument is correct.
		If he cannot see that the present step of the argument is correct and even suspects that it is, possibly, incorrect, he may protest and ask a question.
		The questions and suggestions of our list may be useful to the author and to the teacher in emphasizing the purpose and the motives of his argument.
	webpages.charter.net /rivendell/heuristics/the_intelligent_reader.htm (233 words)

	Some Significant Outcomes of the 2003 Nigerian Presidential Election in the Niger Delta and other Regions
		In the opening paragraph of that article, I maintained that based on the published results, we must reject the hypothesis that the results of the election were fundamentally flawed and should be rejected (annulled).
		The first heuristic argument is that the outcome of the election conforms to general expectations.
		The second heuristic argument is the role of the power of incumbency in African politics.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/Politics/2003Elections/President-election/NigerDelta-OjameruayeII.html (2362 words)

	Goldbach's conjecture Summary
		A very crude version of the heuristic probabilistic argument (for the strong form of the Goldbach conjecture) is as follows.
		This heuristic is non-rigorous for a number of reasons, for instance it assumes that the events that m and n − m are prime are statistically independent of each other.
		The above heuristic argument is actually somewhat inaccurate, because it ignores some correlations between the likelihood of m and n − m being prime.
	www.bookrags.com /Goldbach's_conjecture (1898 words)

	Transverse Wave Rules
		An alternative way of removing accumulating term structure is to move it onto another argument position where: either it can be removed by matching with a ``sink'', a universally quantified variable in the induction hypothesis; or it can be moved upwards by rewriting with the recursive definitions.
		Rather than move the accumulating term structure on the right hand side of the equations to the top of the term, it is much simpler to move the accumulating term structure from the first onto the second argument of the outermost append.
		The other heuristic used to instantiate the right hand side of the speculated lemma is the simplification heuristic.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume4/walsh96a-html/section3_6.html (739 words)

	UC Berkeley Mathematics
		A similar question can be asked about the variety of solutions whose coordinates are homogeneous polynomials in two variables of bounded degree.
		In fact, k is simply the degree of the first Chern class of the projective manifold F=0 (if it is nonsingular), and it turns out that many results of number theory and algebraic geometry nicely fit into this crude heuristic scheme, if one makes some subtle changes in basic definitions and questions.
		The first part of the colloquium talk will discuss the number-theoretical program, which can be considered as an extension of the classical work using the circle method.
	math.berkeley.edu /index.php?module=announce&ANN_id=13&ANN_user_op=view (325 words)

	Abstracts
		BankXX is a case-based legal argument program that retrieves cases and other legal knowledge pertinent to a legal argument through a combination of heuristic search and knowledge-based indexing.
		Although our framing argument as search is not discussed in detail in this paper, we describe the main features of this view to provide context for a discussion of an indexing scheme that facilitates argument creation.
		The integration of these two reasoning paradigms is performed via a collection of control heuristics, which suggest how to interleave case-based methods and rule-based methods to construct an argument to support a particular interpretation.
	www.cs.umass.edu /~cbr/abstracts.html (2531 words)

	What is heuristic? - a definition from Whatis.com
		(Heuristic can be contrasted with algorithmic.) The term seems to have two usages:
		As a noun, a heuristic is a specific rule-of-thumb or argument derived from experience.
		The application of heuristic knowledge to a problem is sometimes known as heuristics.
	searchcio.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci212246,00.html (246 words)

	heuristicone
		This heuristic is intended to help you work collaboratively and individually to develop a topic theme for the semester and a specific topic for your first paper.
		TOPIC PROPOSAL: Note that this section of the heuristic is to be completed individually over the weekend (as homework) and posted to WebBoard by class-time on Monday, 9/9.
		Remember that, in a definitional argument, you are arguing that a particular X belongs in a category Y where Y is a controversial term with a disputed definition.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aoneal/heuristicone.html (477 words)

	Conjecture 38. Adrian Stoica’s Conjecture
		Here is a heuristic argument giving some confidence in its truth.
		However, this heuristic argument is not enough to _prove_ the conjecture, since the given segment cannot be _proved_ to be typical, in the sense of having that particular fraction of points uncrossed out.
		Ignoring questions of randomness, independence of events, etc., for the sake of a probabilistic argument, consider each s(k) as randomly selected from the positive integers 1, 2,..., s(K) = (N^2 + 1)/2.
	www.primepuzzles.net /conjectures/conj_038.htm (1663 words)

	Fermat number Summary
		The following heuristic argument suggests there are only finitely many Fermat primes: according to the prime number theorem, the "probability" that a number n is prime is at most A/ln(n), where A is a fixed constant.
		It should be stressed that this argument is in no way a rigorous proof.
		For one thing, the argument assumes that Fermat numbers behave "randomly", yet we have already seen that the factors of Fermat numbers have special properties.
	www.bookrags.com /Fermat_number (1320 words)

	ipedia.com: Rule of thumb Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A rule of thumb is an easily learnt and easily applied procedure for approximately calculating or recalling some value, or for making some determination.
		Compare this to heuristic, a similar concept used in mathematical discourse, or in computer science, particularly in algorithm design.
		The term "rule of thumb" or similar exists in many languages and cultures.
	www.ipedia.com /rule_of_thumb.html (273 words)

	Encyclopedia: Heuristic argument
		Updated 260 days 7 hours 17 minutes ago.
		An heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown by experimental (especially trial-and-error) investigation to be a useful aid in learning, discovery and problem-solving.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heuristic-argument (101 words)

	argument \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		An argument is a statement (premise) or group of statements (premises) offered in support of another statement (conclusion).
		En rhétorique, un argument est un élément de discours servant à étayer un propos ou une thèse (voir aussi argumentation).
		Een argument kan zijn:een punt dat iemand maakt in een discussie of argumentatie, zie: argument (argumentatieleer).een stukje invoer voor een computerprogramma, of voor een functie in een computerprogramma, zie: parameter.de poolhoek van een complex getal, zie: complex getal.een verplicht onderdeel van een predicatie, iets dat een werkwoord 'bij zich heeft', zie: argument (taalkunde).
	www.babylon.com /definition/argument/All (261 words)

	Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and esp. trial-and-error methods.
		Typically, heuristics reduce the number of alternatives that a thinker must consider.
		2 Heuristic n[1860] 1: the study or practice of heuristic procedure 2: heuristic argument 3: a heuristic method or procedure
	www.noteaccess.com /MODES/Heuristic.htm (242 words)

	IngentaConnect BankXX: Supporting Legal Arguments through Heuristic Retrieval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The BankXX system models the process of perusing and gathering information for argument as a heuristic best-first search for relevant cases, theories, and other domain-specific information.
		As BankXX searches its heterogeneous and highly interconnected network of domain knowledge, information is incrementally analyzed and amalgamated into a dozen desirable ingredients for argument (called {\it argument pieces}), such as citations to cases, applications of legal theories, and references to prototypical factual scenarios.
		In this article, we describe how legal research fits the heuristic search framework and detail how this model is used in BankXX.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/klu/arti/1996/00000004/00000001/00106400 (359 words)

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