consilience
Americannoun
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the practice of drawing from different academic disciplines to study, analyze, or explain a phenomenon in a unified way.
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cooperation or collaboration between two or more typically isolated groups, schools of thought, etc.
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concurrence or coincidence; agreement.
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Wilson acknowledges that consilience is a reductionistic enterprise, which will eliminate many ways of seeing the world.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 25, 2021
Is consilience a bad idea, which we’d be better off without?
From Scientific American ● Jun. 25, 2021
Unlike consilience, triangulation suggests the deliberate use of different methods.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2018
This spirit is also captured in the idea of consilience put forward by polymath William Whewell in the mid-nineteenth century and popularized in the 1990s by naturalist E. O. Wilson.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2018
Wilson calls "consilience": the bridging of science and humanities through an understanding of how the mind works.
From Time Magazine Archive
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