consilience

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.

   “CONSILIENCE of INDUCTIONS takes place when an induction obtained from one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from a different class. This consilience is the test of the truth of the theory in which it occurs.”

2. isim The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.

   “[T]he call for consilience, which requires extending interdisciplinarity across the sciences/humanities divide, has, for the most part, been met with indifference or outright hostility by the majority of humanists.”