Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist E. O. Wilson.

* Wendell Berry wrote a comprehensive critique of Consilience in his essay collection Life is a Miracle writing in response to the suppositions of Wilson's work.

Consilience does not forbid deviations: in fact, since not all experiments are perfect, some deviations from established knowledge are expected.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

* Consilience — the unification of knowledge, e. g. science and the humanities

Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences.

Consilience has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process, a vision at odds with mystical views in many cultures that surrounded the Hellenes.

* Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book written by biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the gap between " the two cultures "

Consilience requires the use of independent methods of measurement, meaning that the methods have few shared characteristics.

Consilience has also been discussed in reference to Holocaust denial.

* Consilience between biology disciplines.

* Gillispie, Charles C. " E. O. Wilson's Consilience: A Noble, Unifying Vision, Grandly Expressed ", American Scientist, May-June 1998.

The problem of psychology and the integration of human knowledge: Contrasting Wilson ’ s Consilience with the Tree of Knowledge System.

" Consilience ", Issues in Science and Technology, Vol.

* Edward Osborne Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998, Knopf.

* E. O. Wilson's book on sociobiology and his book Consilience discuss the idea of genetic predisposition to behaviors

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but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

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All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

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Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.

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It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

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When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

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After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

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Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

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Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

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