1. Fifth and finally, consilience: The explanations of different phenomena most likely to survive are those that can be connected and proved consistent with one another.

2. In this new era of "Consilience", images and realities are becoming more and more like ghost-spirit which is floating in the middle of nowhere.

3. Experimental results show a good consilience with the designed parameters.

4. A quite different kind of evidence for my hypothesis is its consilience with evolutionary theory.

5. The 19th-century philosopher of science William Whewell called this process of independent lines of inquiry converging together to a conclusion a " consilience of inductions."

6. The defenders of the consensus tend to stress the general consilience of their efforts—the way that data, theory and modelling back each other up.