consilience

It figures less here than in his last book, "Consilience."

The approach of using several methods is preferred for best results (by consilience).

In addition to the sciences, consilience can be important to the arts, ethics,and religion.

For centuries, the progress of science has been a story of increasing consilience.

Wilson's case for a universal consilience rests on several interlocking elements.

Even other empirical criteria like consilience can never truly eliminate such explanations as competition.

It is marked by empiricism and rationalism in concert or consilience.

It requires a consilience of modern disciplines and acceptance of social diversity.

Requires consilience between biology, psychology and computer science.

Mr. Wilson's consilience, he suggested, is limited and limiting.

Consilience: the unity of knowledge, literally a 'jumping together' of knowledge.

He was an advocate of Consilience: including biological individuality along with social, psychological, and cultural factors in any understanding of human behavior.

He called the strategy of coordinating disparate results from multifarious sources consilience of induction.

See consilience.

Wilson's sociobiological-cultural claims are, to say the least, controversial among biologists, and one suspects that he overstates the consilience of the natural sciences.

Literally "jumping together," consilience means the linking of facts and theory across disciplines into a single coherent system of explanation.

Consilience requires the use of independent methods of measurement, meaning that the methods have few shared characteristics.

Those techniques with the fewest (or no) shared characteristics provide the strongest consilience and result in the strongest conclusions.

They rally to Edward O. Wilson's cry for "consilience" among all the branches of learning.

Wilson prefers and uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.

He wrote about the proper testing of natural selection, invoking the idea of consilience for historical explanation:

That emphasis on consilience, even if it came at the expense of convenience, has always been a defining trait of Steve Jobs.

Extropianism describes a pragmatic consilience of transhumanist thought guided by a proactionary approach to human evolution and progress.

Gould also reminds the reader that he revived Whewell's concept of consilience in print, prior to Wilson.

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.