| 11. | In addition to the sciences, consilience can be important to the arts, ethics and religion.
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| 12. | Even other empirical criteria, such as consilience, can never truly eliminate such explanations as competition.
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| 13. | Consilience requires the use of independent methods of measurement, meaning that the methods have few shared characteristics.
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| 14. | 14 . ( x ) CONSILIENCE, by Edward O . Wilson . ( Knopf, $ 26 .)
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| 15. | They rally to Edward O . Wilson's cry for " consilience " among all the branches of learning.
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| 16. | Gould also reminds the reader that he revived Whewell's concept of consilience in print, prior to Wilson.
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| 17. | Psychology is the furthest along in this process, called " Consilience " by E . O . Wilson.
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| 18. | Those techniques with the fewest ( or no ) shared characteristics provide the strongest consilience and result in the strongest conclusions.
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| 19. | Wilson uses the term " consilience " to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.
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| 20. | Consilience does not forbid deviations : in fact, since not all experiments are perfect, some deviations from established knowledge are expected.
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