F. R. A.

_Heuristisch--Evristic._--The word _heuristisch_ occurs four times in the

_Kritik der Reinen Vernunft_, pp. 480. 515. 520. 568., ed. Leipzig, 1838. I

cannot find it in any German Dictionary. Mr. Haywood (ed. 1838) translates

it _evristic_, which I cannot find in any English dictionary. I conjecture

that it may be [Greek: heuriskô] Germanised, and that it will bear the

translation _tentative_. Will some one, better versed than myself in the

language of German metaphysics, tell me whether I am right, and, if not,

set me so?

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