In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CONSILIENCE
Etymology
Noun
consilience (countable and uncountable, plural consiliences)
(logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from 1840]
Synonym: coincidence
The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*sil"i*ence, n. Etym: [con- + salire to leap.]
Definition: Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence. The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of facts coincides with an induction obtained from another different class. Whewell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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