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==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 [[method]]s and investigations for [[fragment]]ary 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 [[experiment|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 [[Energy|energetic]] [[sexual]] shenanigans.
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==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 [[method]]s and investigations for [[fragment]]ary 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 [[experiment|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 [[Energy|energetic]] [[sexual]] shenanigans.
[[Category: General Reference]]