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Consilience

In science and history, consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions. That is, when multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the individual sources of evidence is…

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Consilience

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related to history · 16
Consilience → Age, BCE, By, Caesar's, Enlightenment, For, Greek, Hellenes, Historical, Holocaust, Julius Caesar, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Rome, The, Whewell's
related to Edward O. Wilson · 11
Consilience → Although, An, He, Knowledge, Scientific Revolution, Snow's The Two Cultures, The Unity, Whewell, Whewell's, Wilson, Wilson's
related to Description · 7
Consilience → As, Because, For, If, Random, That, This
related to Significance · 7
Consilience → As, Because, For, In, The, This, Those
related to Deviations · 6
Consilience → AIDS, However, More, Science, This, Without
related to Outside the sciences · 2
Consilience → In, Wilson
is a · 1
Consilience → test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs.More recent descriptions include

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