[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.", "encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems independently, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error:The course uses a heuristic teaching method to allow students to find answers without being directly taught.", "of, relating to, or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.", "Computers, Mathematics.pertaining to a trial-and-error method of problem solving used when an algorithmic approach is impractical."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a heuristic method of argument.", "the study of heuristic procedure."]}]