Series index: A heuristic is a rule-of-thumb or disciplined shortcut that guides reasoning, decision-making, or discovery under uncertainty. By ignoring some variables to make others tractable, heuristics turn overwhelming complexity into workable problems. In science, this is not a drawback, it is the method itself (Box and Draper 1987). Models, measurements, and optimisations rely on … Continue reading All Scientific Knowledge is Heuristic – Science as Structured Approximation