"consilience : (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from..."

“consilience : (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
English philosopher and theologian William Whewell, who coined the word, was born on this day 225 years ago in 1794.”

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