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developed this approach to seemingly non-reducible complexity (Zwicky, 1966, 1969). Using the technique of cross consistency assessment (CCA) (Ritchey, 2002), the system however does allow for reduction, not by reducing the number of variables involved, but by reducing the number of possible solutions through the elimination of the illogical solution combinations in a grid box.

References in fiction

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has his characters use a "Zwicky box" in ''

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'', to figure out what's available to break the ennui of his 2000-year-old character.

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'' as a means to help solve a murder mystery.

References

* Ritchey, Tom (2002). General Morphological Analysis: A general method for non-quantified modeling. * Zwicky, F., Discovery, Invention, Research - Through the Morphological Approach, Toronto: The Macmillan Company (1969). * Zwicky, F. & Wilson A. (eds.), New Methods of Thought and Procedure: Contributions to the Symposium on Methodologies. Berlin: Springer (1967). Problem solving