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Webster 1913 Edition

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.

Definition 2024

consilience

consilience

English

Noun

consilience ‎(plural consiliences)

(logic) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets
The agreement, co-operation or overlap of academic disciplines.

References

Consilience Edward O. Wilson (Vintage Books USA 1998, ISBN 067976867X)
“consilience” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).