# Consilience | | In science and history, **Consilience** is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions. That is, when multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the individual sources of evidence is significantly so on its own. Most established scientific knowledge is supported by a convergence of evidence: if not, the evidence is comparatively weak, and there will probably not be a strong scientific consensus. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Consilience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience) | - [[Consilience in Recursion, Sublation, Dialectics, Emergence, Non-linearity, Lateral Thinking, Meta, Intension, Feedback Loops, etc.]] - [[Consilience in lateral thinking, binary opposition, conatus, super position, paradigm shifts, transcendence, emergence, simulation and simulacrum]] - [[Consilience in effability, perception, and cognition]] - [[Consilience in thought models, theoretical frameworks, paradigms, and conceptual distinctions, principles, strategies, mapping, categories, classification, and abstraction]] - Consilience in dialectic, duality, balance, the dao, taijitu, reciprocity, relation, binary opposition - prickles and goo, moral and ethical and existential dilemmas and ambiguity and deciding among plural values, competing virtues, etc. ## Consiliences ```dataview LIST FROM #Type/Form/Consilience SORT file.name ASC ```