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What is a consilience?

What is a consilience? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (logic) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets
  2. The agreement, co-operation or overlap of academic disciplines.
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Healthy societies require a certain degree of consilience between cultural, economic, and political power.
So to some degree consilience may be possible, but only by clearly recognizing the great differences between science and religion.
This is why the most compelling answers come from the consilience of genetic and fossil evidence.
He called this approach consilience, or how consistent independent lines of evidence are with each other.
This century has seen a remarkable consilience within and among the natural sciences, first with atomic physics, now with molecular genetics.
In general, I use it to describe the comparisons of independent outcomes in search of inductive consilience.

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