On Fit

Author: Edward O. Wilson
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: "Consilience" is achieved by linking interdisciplinary facts and theories based on these facts to unify and integrate knowledge, thereby creating a common explanatory foundation. It is a way of thinking, now held by many scientists who are also philosophers. The material world is governed by laws, knowledge has an inherent unity, and human progress has infinite potential. Great intellectual labor has been and will remain the effort to integrate natural science and the humanities. The material world is governed by laws, knowledge has an inherent unity, and human progress has infinite potential. Great intellectual labor has been and will remain the effort to integrate natural science and the humanities. "Consilience" is achieved by linking interdisciplinary facts and theories based on these facts to unify and integrate knowledge, thereby creating a common explanatory foundation. It is a way of thinking, now held by many scientists who are also philosophers.