Look up: consilience

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   Consilience
   Con·sil'i·ence noun [ con- + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. « The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell. »
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   Consilience
   `Consilience`, or the unity of knowledge (literally a `jumping together` of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes. The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the ...
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   Consilience
   • (n.) Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
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   Consilience
   Whewell calls 'consilience of inductions' what occurs when a hypothesis gives us the 'rule and reason' not only of the class of facts contemplated in its construction, but also, unexpectedly, of some class of facts altogether different. -- C.J.D.
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