This page is still under construction.

Most of the other sources that you will read refer to this topic as Problem Solving, rather than as Solving Problems. However, there is good reason to reverse the term to a more natural form.

Let's say that you buy something in a local store in order to quench your thirst. It's unlikely that you would call the process Milk Buying. You would talk about Buying Milk. (Even more likely, you would probably describe the action in a sentence: "I'm going out to buy milk.")

Similarly, this series of articles will deal with solving problems, and not with "problem solving." By correcting the terminology, we've already solved our first problem. We know precisely what we are striving to accomplish in this section.

The rest may be a bit more complex.

This series of articles has been trying to use a term of creating one problem while fixing another or fixing one problem while creating another one and telling about the evils of doing so. This is so that we can focus on the issues to be discussed in these articles.

The truth is that there already is a term for this problem. It is called a side effect. A side effect of a problem is something which occurs when trying to resolve the original problem. It means that the original problem might even go away and it might not exist any more but it is not a good idea or a useful concept to depend on this side effect to depend on the cure that causes the side effect.

This series of articles avoids this concept of a side effect because of its pharmaceutical implications or ramifications, at least in the reader's mind. So we used our more lengthy term. However, the truth of the matter is when you think of a side effect, it's a cure that causes another problem.

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Just solving problems versus handling problems versus dealing with problems