Consilience (Concordance of Evidence; Convergence of Evidence) (coined by William Whewell, 1840s; developed by E.O. Wilson, 1990s) – the conviction that empirical evidence from diverse sources should converge on the same conclusions, bolstering those conclusions in the process (that is, rendering them more “scientific”). Consilience is founded on the assumption that the same fundamental laws underlie all existence.
Please cite this article as:
Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2022). “Consilience (Concordance of Evidence; Convergence of Evidence)” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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