The sheer amount of consilient data from different disciplines is staggering. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design] Reference
It's exciting to see so many Nobel laureates taking this consilient approach. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
And as far as science itself is concerned, it has become all too obvious that many scientists practice their discipline like a trade, without ever attempting to form a truly consilient, or even consistent, view of the world. From Wordnik.com. [homunculus] Reference
And, Dan, I’ll tie that to a short comment I recently made at your site: When horizontal or consilient thinkers leap ahead to find a vertical line, they often err. From Wordnik.com. [Am I Understanding the Gist of the Global Guerilla Concept? [Updated] « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference
Before answering the pro-Freudian letters that appear above, let me refresh reader's memories by recapitulating the claims of my essay: ” that Freud's uniquely psychoanalytic ideas have received no appreciable corroboration, and much discouragement, from independent sources; ” that his method of reaching causal conclusions, even in the idealized form described in his public writings, could not have reliably yielded those conclusions by any imaginable path of inference; ” that his actual method was far worse, namely, turning hunches, borrowed notions, and corollaries of his other beliefs into certainties and then depicting those "findings" as the inescapable results of clinical experience; ” that his idea of corroboration was the fallacious one of heaping up consilient-looking exercises of his interpretative style, without regard for rival lines of possible explanation; ” that his perceptions and diagnoses invariably served his self-interest, always shifting according to the propagandis. From Wordnik.com. [The Unknown Freud: An Exchange] Reference
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