The literal meaning of consilience is the "jumping together of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation- (Wilson 8). ... We must adapt a common language of learning in order to come to a deeper understanding of our world. ... These experiences lead Wilson into his theory that uniqueness and free will are nothing but an illusion. ... In order for us as a society to reach consilience we have to have a common language. ...

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It is the evolution of discoveries and information upon information which are conected and new inventions and laws and theories are made and created but all present technology is the combination of this information throughout thousands of years. ... Thus scientific knowledge, including, physics, chemistry, biology, and even language if we count it as a science would be inexistant at all and thus knowledge could not exist as a whole as it depends upon language a lot, only logical knowledge such as, if you throw a rock at a window, it will break through adaptation to the environment. Moreov...

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People were born into groups such as clans, tribe and so fourth, then by living in these groups they would pick up language, beliefs, and other cultural habits. ... With previous theories Durkhiem proposes that we look back at all religion, "religions "elementary forms"." ...

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It is important to note that although Weber believed that value neutrality was the aim of research, his view was that no science is fundamentally neutral and its observational language is never independent of the way individuals see phenomena and the questions they ask about them (Morrison 1995 pp.267, 347) It is this link between the researcher's theoretical stand and the methods adopted that raises the question as to whether sociology can be value free. ... (Morrison 1995 pp.24-25) In two key areas positivism differed from idealism: first it put great emphasis on the reliability of obse...

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He had quite a strong faith in science and induction (which consists in achieving a general theory from individual facts), which was considered by him to be the new "spirit" to reach the truth. ... Bacon wanted to base knowledge on the accumulation of facts, and he would even got to ignore the role that hypothesis play in order to elaborate a theory, which is fundamental. ... In the second place, his like of latin (the proverb that he quotes in line 27: "Abeunt studia in mores", which means "studies culminate in manners"), language into which he published some of his works, such as "Novum Orga...

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