consilient

Examples

• All

• We should all seek to make our fields more consilient.

  Academic text (2013)

• In fact, it's in the first line head of consilient research and maybe just define some terms Consilience.

• Rawls expects that persons with quite different world views than his own will have their own reasons for accepting his conclusions and that these reasons will both be rooted in their own view of the world and will at the same time be consilient with his.

  Academic text (1998)

• So whether you're in consumer behavior, communications, sociology, or political science, it doesn't matter; any field that involves biological agents has to have an infusion of evolutionary theory within it in order for it to be consilient.

  Academic text (2013)

• The researchers found consilient evidence from multiple studies that supported their hypothesis.

• In a consilient analysis, different perspectives combined to produce a comprehensive understanding of the issue.

Synonyms

C

consistent

vsconsilient

305 3.3

Agreeing with something else and not contradicting it

is about agreement across multiple sources of evidence

C

concurring

vsconsilient

1 5.4

Agreeing with other people about an idea or decision

relates to agreement among separate evidence sources rather than people or opinions

U

uncontradictory

vsconsilient

7.7

Does not conflict with other statements and fits the facts

focuses on agreement among different evidence sources rather than absence of contradiction

How Consistent

consilient

• Formal

9.9

consistent

305 3.3

compatible

112 4.1

inconsistent

96 4.7

contradictory

72 6.1

Surface Forms

Etymology