consilience

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EE for neglecting this consilience (e.g., the putatively mutually reinforcing molecular and anatomical data).

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  1. noun The agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence.

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  • Donald couldn't help but regard it as a case of consilience, and as no coincidence. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • But even the most gung-ho genetically minded sociologists will say that their first baby steps toward consilience, E.O. Wilson's term for the uniting of the biological and social sciences, don't match that lofty rhetoric. —  Integral Options Cafe
  • The consilience of the temperature data (never, of course, raw) with the retreat of glaciers and collapse of ice-shelves greatly increases climate scientists 'confidence that rapid warming is happening. —  RealClimate
  • Neuroeconomics: The consilience of brain and decision. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • For a modern example of the consilience of medical science and Judeo-Christian culture, consider St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. —  Evolution News & Views
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  1. con- + English morpheme -sili- (as in resilience, from Latin salīre, -silīre; see resile) + -ence.

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  1. from consilient: see -ence.
 

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