consiliences

Noun

consilience (countable and uncountable, plural consiliences)

1. The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
   • Indeed in all cases in which from propositions of considerable generality, propositions of a still higher degree are obtained, there is a convergence of inductions; and if in one of the lines which thus converge, the steps be rapidly and suddenly made in order to meet the other line, we may...1840, William Whewell, “Of the Logic of Induction”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge...

   Synonyms:

   coincidence

2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
   • The common pursuit of Truth is of itself a brotherhood. [...] Surely, were each of us to give utterance to all he feels, we should hear the Chemist, the Astronomer, the Physiologist, the Electrician, the Botanist, the Geologist, all with one accord, and each in the language of his own science...1845 June, W[illiam] Herschel, “Inaugural Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Held at Cambridge, June 1845”, in The Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal, Scientific...