consilience
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Attested in 1840 CE; from Latin com- (“together”) with salire (“to leap”).
[edit] Noun
consilience (plural consiliences)
- (logic) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets
- Agreement, co-operation or sharing of methods between or convergence or overlap of academic disciplines
[edit] References
- Consilience Edward O. Wilson (Vintage Books USA 1998, ISBN 067976867X)
- “consilience” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
