# Heuretics are either inventions or discoveries * Inventions are processes, tools, or products designed to achieve a purpose * [[Effect A can be used for purpose B entails describing the effect in an inventive manner]] * Discoveries are new knowledge about the world. * [[Science and technology advance through the same fundamental mechanism]] . * It might be possible that a heuretic can be modified to become an invention after starting as a discovery if you turn it into a tool. This process would explain how Newtonian mechanics are both wrong in a scientific sense and obscenely useful in an engineering sense. ### Related * [[narayanamurtiCyclesInventionDiscovery2016]] * [[Heuretic is a better word than innovation]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Heuretics+are+either+inventions+or+discoveries) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Heuretics+are+either+inventions+or+discoveries)