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