(philosophy) A thought experiment, asking, "if a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability to see, distinguish those objects by sight alone, in reference to the tactile schemata he already possessed?"

A type of thought experiment in ethics and psychology, involving ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.

(computing) The problem of how to create a superintelligent AI whose values would align with the interests of humankind.

(geometry) The mathematical problem of determining the set of numbers that can be Heesch numbers.

present participle of problem-solve

(sciences) A simplified problem with clear constraints and parameters, usually used as a tool to understand a related real-world problem.

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.

(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

The problem of finding the motion, relative to one another, of two objects, where the position of each affects the motion of the other.

(mathematics, UK, Canada) The problem in combinatorial optimization in which, given a number of cities and the costs of travelling from one to the other, it is required to determine the cheapest route that visits each city once and then returns to the initial city.