(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:40:54

Con*sil"i*ence (?), n. [con- + salire to leap.]

Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.

The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.

 

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