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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Consilience
		Consilience, or the unity of knowledge (literally a "jumping together" of knowledge), 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.
		The word consilience was apparently coined by William Whewell, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840.
		Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs." The Scientific method has become almost universally accepted as the exclusive method for testing the status of any scientific hypothesis or theory.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Consilience (441 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Induction
		When a hypothesis cannot be rigorously verified by establishing the reciprocal universal judgment, it may nevertheless steadily grow in probability in proportion to the number and importance of other cognate phenomena which it is found capable of accounting for, in addition to the one it was invented to explain.
		A hypothesis is rendered highly probable if it foretells or explains cognate phenomena; this is called by Whewell consilience of inductions (Novum Organum Renovatum, pp.
		Thus, for instance, was Newton's gravitation hypothesis gradually extended by him so as to explain the motions of the moon and the tides, the motions of the satellites around the planets and of these around the sun, until finally it came to be regarded as applicable throughout the whole material universe.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07779a.htm (2632 words)

	Meme - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		They pointed out that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory.
		Wilson later adopted the term 'meme' as the best existing name for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance and elaborated upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences in his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
		The "be happy" and "make others happy" memes
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