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How do you use Consilience in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Consilience in a sentence

Consilience meaning

  1. The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
  2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.

Using Consilience

  • The main meaning on this page is: The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. | The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
  • In the example corpus, consilience often appears in combinations such as: consilience is, consilience and.

Context around Consilience

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

strongest 1× thus 1× term 1×

Often after:

eliminates 1×

Sentence patterns with Consilience

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

consilience is important 1× not be consilience and would 1× the strongest consilience and result 1× the term consilience to describe 1× themselves because consilience eliminates the 1× thus consilience is a 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

consilience is important 1× finding similar conclusions 1× those techniques with 1× thus consilience is 1× while repetition does 1× wilson used the 1×

Common sentence endings:

by doris schonefeld 1× of human endeavor 1× the methods equally 1× the strongest conclusions 1× vulnerable to error 1× which it occurs 1×

Words around Consilience

Just before it in the word index:

consigns 5 consignors 4 consignor 2 consignments 32 consignment 137 consigning 12

Just after it in the word index:

consilium 4 consing 2 consist 1.104 consistancy 2 consistantly 2 consisted 1.165

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaba 10 aafc 10 aaib 10 aalbers 10 abbate 10 abbesses 10

Corpus analysis for Consilience

  • In this selection, "consilience" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, strongest, thus, term and eliminates stand out and add context to how "consilience" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include consilience is important and not be consilience and would. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "consilience" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with consilience

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs. (15 words)

Wilson used the term " consilience " to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor. (18 words)

Those techniques with the fewest (or no) shared characteristics provide the strongest consilience and result in the strongest conclusions. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Finding similar conclusions from multiple independent methods is also evidence for the reliability of the methods themselves, because consilience eliminates the possibility of all potential errors that do not affect all the methods equally. (34 words)

Consilience is important across all of science, including the social sciences, For example, in linguistics: see Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, edited by Doris Schonefeld. (29 words)

While repetition does provide evidence because it shows that the measurement is being performed consistently, it would not be consilience and would be more vulnerable to error. (27 words)

Example sentences (6)

Consilience is important across all of science, including the social sciences, For example, in linguistics: see Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, edited by Doris Schonefeld.

Finding similar conclusions from multiple independent methods is also evidence for the reliability of the methods themselves, because consilience eliminates the possibility of all potential errors that do not affect all the methods equally.

Those techniques with the fewest (or no) shared characteristics provide the strongest consilience and result in the strongest conclusions.

Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs.

While repetition does provide evidence because it shows that the measurement is being performed consistently, it would not be consilience and would be more vulnerable to error.

Wilson used the term " consilience " to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.

Common combinations with consilience

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "consilience" in a sentence?
An example: "Consilience is important across all of science, including the social sciences, For example, in linguistics: see Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, edited by Doris Schonefeld." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "consilience" from authentic English texts.
What does "consilience" mean?
Consilience means: The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
How many example sentences with "consilience" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "consilience", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.