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The word consilience was originally coined as the phrase "consilience of inductions" by William Whewell (consilience refers to a "jumping together" of knowledge). The word comes from Latin com-"together" and -siliens "jumping" (as in resilience).
Dec 23, 2000 · Whewell’s notion of consilience is thus related to his view of natural classes of objects or events. To understand this confirmation criterion, it may be helpful to schematize the “jumping together” that occurred in the case of Newton’s law of universal gravitation, Whewell’s exemplary case of consilience.
This paper is designed to give a brief explication of Whewell's notion of the consilience of induc tions, along with an assessment of the r?le which consilience and. related concepts play in Whewell's history and philosophy of science. In the fourteenth aphorism concerning science of the Philosophy.
I think it is time to begin to redress the balance, by focussing attention on the significant ‘empiricist’ strains in Whewell’s theory of science. One of the most important of those strains is connected with the operation which Whewell calls ‘the consilience of inductions’. Download to read the full chapter text.
- Larry Laudan
- 1971
Jun 8, 2018 · CONSILIENCE. "Consilience of inductions" is a phrase that was invented by the nineteenth-century English historian and philosopher of science William Whewell [1] (1794–1866; pronounced "Hule"), and introduced in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840).
Whewell coined, among other terms, scientist, [2] physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism; [3] he suggested to Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode. [4] [5] Whewell died in Cambridge in 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse.
Aug 1, 2017 · Whewell's analysis of systematics led to his concept “consilience”. Abstract. In this paper I sketch William Whewell's attempts to impose order on classificatory mineralogy, which was in Whewell's day (1794–1866) a confused science of uncertain prospects.
