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#: {{synonyms|en|coincidence}}

#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Whewell|authorlink=William Whewell|chapter=Of the Logic of Induction|title=The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. [...] In Two Volumes|___location=London|publisher=[[w:John William Parker|John W[illiam] Parker]],{{nb...|West Strand}}; Cambridge: J. and J. J. Deighton|year=1840|volume=II|section=paragraph 4|pages=242–243|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=yPcDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA242|oclc=1003958306|passage=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 consider that we have an example of '''Consilience'''.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Fleming|entry=CONSILIENCE of INDUCTIONS|title=The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical;{{nb...|with Quotations and References; for the Use of Students.}}|edition=2nd revised and enlarged|___location=London; Glasgow|publisher={{w|Richard Griffin and Company}}, publishers to the {{w|University of Glasgow.}}|year=1858|page=114|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGtZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA114|oclc=27304329|passage='''''CONSILIENCE''' of INDUCTIONS'' takes place when an induction obtained from one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from a different class. This '''''consilience''''' is the test of the truth of the theory in which it occurs.}}

# The [[agreement]], [[co-operation]], or [[overlap]] of [[academic discipline]]s.

#* {{quote-journal|en|author=W[illiam] Herschel|authorlink=William Herschel|title=Inaugural Address to the [[w:British Science Association|British Association for the Advancement of Science]], Held at Cambridge, June 1845|journal=The Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal, Scientific and Railway Gazette|___location=London|publisher=R. Groombridge & Sons,{{nb...|5, Paternoster Row}}; [[w:John Weale|J[ohn] Weale]],{{nb...|59, High Holborn}}; New York, N.Y.: [[w:Wiley (publisher)|Wiley & Putnam]]; Paris: [[w:John Anthony Galignani|Galignani]]|month=June|year=1845|year_published=July 1845|volume=VIII|issue=94|page=204|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/civilengineerarc08lond/page/204/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=978113081|passage=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, declaring not only the wonderful works of God disclosed in it, but the delight which their disclosure affords him, and the privilege he feels it to be to have aided in it. This is indeed a magnificent induction—a '''consilience''' there is no refusing.}}