A process that uses certain skills to solve a problem is what?

Answer 1

Definitions that use the defined term in the definition are by definition not definitions.

Make sense? It will.

Here we are trying to come up with a word or phrase to describe the ability or process of finding solutions to problems. The obviously easy way out would be to suggest "problem solving skills" or the label applied to one who possesses such, "problem solver."

Not much of a solution. If the seeker knows neither what "problem" nor "solve" mean, nor the combination of the two, spitting the two forms back at that person gets him no further toward understanding.

So check synonyms for problem solver. My favorite is facilitator. The processes then is to facilitate or facilitating.