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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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Wilson observes that the humanities have gone astray, following unproductive byways, since they are generally neither consilient nor scientific.
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