Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agreeing; concurring: as, “consilient testimony,”
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- adjective Of academic disciplines, displaying
consilience .
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Examples
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The sheer amount of consilient data from different disciplines is staggering.
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The sheer amount of consilient data from different disciplines is staggering.
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As for your farcical assertion that whales were a “post flood adaptation”, this is manifest garbage, given that the [1] your fantasy flood never happened, and I can point to numerous consilient reasons from reality why your fantasy flood never happened, and [2] the fossil ancestors of whales pre-date your fantasy flood by about 50 million years.
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The revival of human nature [not equal to] the denial of human nurture: toward a consilient science of human behavior.
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Strangely enough, the rise and persistence of creation myths can be construed as a backhanded way of weaving religion into a consilient overview of evolutionary theory.
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Strangely enough, the rise and persistence of creation myths can be construed as a backhanded way of weaving religion into a consilient overview of evolutionary theory.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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This consilient approach is not reason for writers to begin every biography with the emergence of multicellular organisms, or to explain the rise of Impressionism starting with the physics of light.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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This consilient approach is not reason for writers to begin every biography with the emergence of multicellular organisms, or to explain the rise of Impressionism starting with the physics of light.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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This consilient approach is not reason for writers to begin every biography with the emergence of multicellular organisms, or to explain the rise of Impressionism starting with the physics of light.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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This consilient approach is not reason for writers to begin every biography with the emergence of multicellular organisms, or to explain the rise of Impressionism starting with the physics of light.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
chained_bear commented on the word consilient
"...the most impressive thing about his research was not the levels of social class that he traversed but rather the intellectual strata, the different scales of experience that his mind crossed so effortlessly. Snow was a truly consilient thinker, in the sense of the term as it was originally formulated by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell in the 1840s...."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 67
October 2, 2008