- Consilience - Wikipedia
In science and history, consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions
- CONSILIENCE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CONSILIENCE is the linking together of principles from different disciplines especially when forming a comprehensive theory
- CONSILIENCE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Definition of 'consilience' consilience in British English (kənˈsɪlɪəns ) noun agreement between inductions drawn from different sets of data or from different academic disciplines
- consilience, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
consilience, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- Consilience - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
kənˈsɪlijəns IPA guide Other forms: consiliences Definitions of consilience noun agreement and overlap of ideas among various fields of study on a topic, especially in academic subjects
- consilience - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
The central idea of the consilience world view is that all tangible phenomena, from the birth of stars to the workings of social institutions, are based on material processes that are ultimately reducible, however long and tortuous the sequences, to the law of physics
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
Wilson calls this common groundwork of explanation that crosses all the great branches of learning "consilience," and he argues that we can indeed explain everything in the world through an understanding of a handful of natural laws
- Consilience - World Wide Words
It means “a jumping together”, and in his book he encourages those who study the sciences, the humanities and the arts to bridge the gaps between their narrow specialisms and so link together all the branches of learning, an aim which goes back to the thinkers of the time of the Enlightenment
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