OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38233

consilience

/kənˈsɪ.li.əns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
consiliencia
The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
CONSILIENCE of INDUCTIONS takes place when an induction obtained from one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from a different class. This consilience is the test o…
Indeed in all cases in which from propositions of considerable generality, propositions of a still higher degree are obtained, there is a convergence of inductions; and if in one o…
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