Consilience Definition

kən-sĭlē-əns
noun
The agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence.
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The agreement, co-operation or overlap of academic disciplines.

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Other Word Forms of Consilience

Noun

Singular:
consilience
Plural:
consiliences

Origin of Consilience

  • Probably coined by William Whewell (1794–1866), British scientist and philosopher, as if from New Latin cōnsilīre to leap together (Latin com- com-) (Latin -silīre) (combining form of salīre to leap) (as in resilīre to leap back resile) –ence

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin con (“together") + salio (“to leap").

    From Wiktionary

Consilience Sentence Examples

  • It teaches us that scientific method is sometimes induction, sometimes deduction, and sometimes the consilience of both, either by the inductive verification of previous deductions, or by the deductive explanation of previous inductions.

  • The consilience of empirical and deductive processes was an Aristotelian discovery, elaborated by Mill against Bacon.

  • On the strength of the consilience of arguments for evolution in the organic world, he carries back the process in the whole world, until he comes to a cosmology which recalls the rash hypotheses of the Presocratics.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With CE

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