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Meaning of CONSILIENCE

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Consilience
Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson argues that the entire world is orderly and can be explained by a number of natural laws. Wilson maintains that the ideas and goals of the Enlightenment have not been discredited and, in fact, are surging back to life.

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\Con*sil"i*ence\, n. [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.
 
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