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Consilience — signifiant Sauter ensemble est un terme du philosophe William Whewell pour désigner le type de démonstration qui apparaît lorsque de nombreuses sources indépendantes concourent à cerner un phénomène historique particulier. La « Consilience… … Wikipédia en Français
Consilience — Con*sil i*ence, n. [con + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. [1913 Webster] The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Consilience — For Edward O. Wilson s 1998 book, see Consilience (book). For The African science podcast, see Consilience (podcast). Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a jumping together of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept… … Wikipedia
Consilience (book) — Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist E. O. Wilson. In this book, Wilson discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. Wilson prefers and uses the… … Wikipedia
Consilience (podcast) — Consilience Hosting Owen Swart Angela Meadon Michael Meadon Updates Weekly Debut March 16, 2011 Genre … Wikipedia
consilience — noun Etymology: com + resilience Date: 1840 the linking together of principles from different disciplines especially when forming a comprehensive theory … New Collegiate Dictionary
consilience — noun a) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets b) Agreement, co operation or sharing of methods between or convergence or overlap of academic disciplines … Wiktionary
consilience — A concept in philosophy of science first described by Whewell, especially in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840). Whewell highlighted the process whereby inductions ‘tie together’ facts by the formation of new ideas. Thus separate… … Philosophy dictionary
consilience — n. coincidence; concurrence … English contemporary dictionary
consilience — [kən sɪlɪəns] noun agreement between the approaches to a topic of different academic subjects, especially science and the humanities. Derivatives consilient adjective Origin from con + L. silient , siliens jumping (as in resilient resilient),… … English new terms dictionary
