Words that have more than one lexical meaning are usually called ambiguous. The noun "solution" is an example of such a concept. In the explanatory dictionary, he is assigned several articles that give an exhaustive definition of each meaning. Let's consider them in more detail.
Judicial Use
According to Efremova, the synonyms of this word are concepts: determination, sentence, resolution.
A court decision is, in essence, a court response to a plaintiff’s claim against a person called a defendant. A dispute has arisen between the parties that needs to be resolved. The court is obliged to investigate the legitimacy of the claims put forward by the plaintiff and to adopt an act in which they are recognized either unlawful or subject to full or partial satisfaction. This document is called the solution. It is designed to turn the civil relations of the two disputing parties into indisputable. Similar terminology is used by the Arbitration Procedure Code.
The court also issues orders and issues rulings to legal entities and individuals. A decision in a criminal case is called a sentence. There is one more nuance: all intermediate actions of the court in the course of civil proceedings are also called decision. For example, the decision to attach this or that document to the case file.
Office use
Brockhaus and Efron clarify that the term is used both in civil proceedings and in other legal relations, being a kind of normative act in jurisprudence.
TSB interprets that earlier, the councils of working people's deputies and their executive committees adopted official decisions binding on them. Such legal acts have the right to be adopted today by local authorities, various conferences, party meetings, etc. Often they are born in the course of voting, open or secret.
A decision is also a legal act of the founders of LLC, CJSC and other organizations of any form of ownership that have legal significance and are drawn up in a protocol.
Use in math
Any ambiguous words are interpreted depending on the context. In mathematics, a noun is often used in the following combination: "problem solving". It implies a certain sequence of actions, the purpose of which is to find out the result, search for an unknown element of an algebraic expression.
Problem solving is a cognitive process that depends on the level of development of thinking, the availability of content and the completeness of the source data. It is carried out in various ways, of which the following should be highlighted:
- The path of trial and error. It is used in the absence of an understanding of goals and the existence of hypotheses that need to be verified.
- Using an algorithm developed by others.
- A deliberate change in the conditions of the problem.
- Creative application of the algorithm.
- Heuristic method.
Solution of problems
The word "task" is also ambiguous and can be considered as a "problem". In this context, a solution is a search for a way out, a certain willful act of choice in the presence of a certain number of alternatives. In this case, a person goes through three mandatory stages:
- Awareness of the problem.
- Statement of the problem to be solved.
- Finding a solution.
Consider the solution as an alternative choice on the example of the film "Guys!" (1981). Pavel Zubov, who did not return to his native village after the army, learns about the existence of a teenage daughter named Polina from her beloved woman, after whose death not only she, but also two sons remained. They are not relatives to him, but all three grew up together and were used to supporting each other. How to decide the fate of children?
Awareness of the problem does not immediately come to the protagonist - the guys cannot be separated, and their fate must be determined. Three options are being examined: an orphanage, custody of children by the parents of the protagonist or Zubov himself. Having chosen the last option, Pavel is forced to find a solution for its implementation, taking the guys to the city of Apatity.
Recommendations
The solution is the choice of someone’s opinion or course, with alternative options available. Based on this, it will be most true when a person considers the maximum number of options. After realizing the problem, it is important to ask yourself a question from the interrogative adverb "how." Example: how to improve your financial situation?
After this, it is necessary to select at least 20 options for a possible answer to the question:
- Introduce the saving mode, abandoning the telephone system.
- By installing metering devices, reduce costs.
- Change job.
- Start your own bissnes.
- Find a cash side job.
- Transfer children from the gymnasium to a regular school, etc.
Psychologically, the most acceptable options are born in the head when all the commonplace methods have already been considered. And they come to mind at the very beginning.
Returning to the concept being analyzed, it should be noted that the decision is understood not only as the result of the choice, but also the process itself, the method of action: "I am solving your question."