consense

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 1.3 Quotations 1.4 Noun 1.5 Quotations

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[edit] Etymology

Back-formation from consensus.

[edit] Verb

to consense (third-person singular simple present consenses, present participle consensing, simple past and past participle consensed)

1. To agree; to form by consensus.

[edit] Quotations

• [1970] 2003, Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. [1]

  We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.

• 1999, Mary Walton, Car [2]

  It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?

• 2003, Milan Daniel, “Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs,” in Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty, Thomas D. Nielsen and Nevin L Zhang edd. [3]

  Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed (i.e. combined by the consensus operator) is Bayesian.

[edit] Noun

consense (plural consenses)

1. agreement

[edit] Quotations

• 1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. [4]

  In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: [...]

• 1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed. [5]

  Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.

• 2001, Azizah Y al-Hibri, “Standing at the Precipice,” in Religion in American Public Life, Azizah Y al-Hibri et al. edd. [6]

  If one raises the bar too high—seeking, say, civil harmony and unity rather than the possibility of working and shifting consenses and a comingling of pluralities and commonalities—religious differences are always going to be problematic at best.