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==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
'''problem-solving''' n. and adj. (a) n.the [[action]] of finding solutions to difficult or [[complex]] issues; (b) adj. involved in or related to this activity; that solves problems. | '''problem-solving''' n. and adj. (a) n.the [[action]] of finding solutions to difficult or [[complex]] issues; (b) adj. involved in or related to this activity; that solves problems. | ||
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==Chronology of Usage== | ==Chronology of Usage== | ||
*1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 199/1 The substitution of general [[method]]s and investigations for [[fragment]]ary and tentative *problem solving, is a [[mathematical]] reform still incomplete in this country. | *1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 199/1 The substitution of general [[method]]s and investigations for [[fragment]]ary and tentative *problem solving, is a [[mathematical]] reform still incomplete in this country. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:43, 12 December 2020
Definition
problem-solving n. and adj. (a) n.the action of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues; (b) adj. involved in or related to this activity; that solves problems.
Chronology of Usage
- 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 199/1 The substitution of general methods and investigations for fragmentary and tentative *problem solving, is a mathematical reform still incomplete in this country.
- 1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 369 This problem-solving age will ask, What law is at work that makes..the steep hills face southward and the more gentle northward?
- 1931 Psychol. Rev. 38 337 Problem-solving by insight is regarded..as qualitatively different from problem-solving on the basis of trial and error.
- 1979 Yale Apr. 4/2 Man is a problem-solving animal.
- 2004 A. GREIG In Another Light (2005) 250 There should be more to living than problem solving, tholing, and some energetic sexual shenanigans.
