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consilience

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con·sil·i·ence  (kn-sl-ns)
n.
The agreement of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of data; concurrence.

[con- + English morpheme -sili- (as in resilience, from Latin salre, -silre; see resile) + -ence.]

con·sili·ent adj.

consilience
a chance happening or coincidence. See also agreement.
See also: Chance
the process of concurring or agreeing. See also chance.
See also: Agreement


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The other school of thought holds that monitoring is inherently inefficient and it is therefore best to ensure a consilience of the principal's and the agent's goals.
Consilience, the conceptual unity of all knowledge (Wilson, 1998), is an idea that most scientists generally ignore because of its impracticality.
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