consilience of inductions

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• Consilience — Con*sil i*ence, n. [con + salire to leap.] Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. [1913 Webster] The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Consilience — For Edward O. Wilson s 1998 book, see Consilience (book). For The African science podcast, see Consilience (podcast). Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a jumping together of knowledge), has its roots in the ancient Greek concept… …   Wikipedia

• consilience — noun a) the concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets b) Agreement, co operation or sharing of methods between or convergence or overlap of academic disciplines …   Wiktionary

• consilience — A concept in philosophy of science first described by Whewell, especially in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840). Whewell highlighted the process whereby inductions ‘tie together’ facts by the formation of new ideas. Thus separate… …   Philosophy dictionary

• consilience — /kənˈsɪliəns/ (say kuhn sileeuhns) noun 1. a linking of knowledge and theory from one or more separate disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. 2. the accordance of two or more inductions drawn from different sets of phenomena.… …  

• Whewell’s philosophy of science and ethics — Struan Jacobs ON SCIENCE Introduction Among the most prodigious of English minds of the nineteenth century, William Whewell (1794–1866) was at various times, and among other things, philosopher, intellectual historian, scientist, educationist,… …   History of philosophy

• MÉTHODE — Le mot «méthode», d’origine grecque, signifie chemin: celui, tracé à l’avance, qui conduit à un résultat. La méthode ou bien se rapporte à la meilleure façon de conduire un raisonnement, ou bien est un programme de recherche (Aristote: Essayer… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• PREUVE (épistémologie) — Une proposition est dite prouvée si, ayant été établie par une méthode reconnue, elle fait l’objet d’une croyance. Cette formulation permet de distinguer quatre versants dans la théorie de la preuve: 1o un élément sémantico formel, la proposition …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• nature, philosophy of — Introduction       the discipline that investigates substantive issues regarding the actual features of nature as a reality. The discussion here is divided into two parts: the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology.       In this… …   Universalium

• Induction — • Induction is the conscious mental process by which we pass from the perception of particular phenomena (things and events) to the knowledge of general truths Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Induction     Induction …   Catholic encyclopedia

• RAISONNEMENT — Le mot de raisonnement est ambigu. On ne dispose pas, pour ce qu’il recouvre, de deux vocables, comme c’est le cas pour le concept et le terme qui le désigne, pour le jugement et la proposition qui l’exprime. Un raisonnement, c’est d’abord une… …   Encyclopédie Universelle