1. Consilience
... everything in the world through natural law. The Ionian Enchantment was the first attempt towards consilience in Wilson's eyes. The Enchantment wanted to unify the sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to create common natural laws. However one cannot study the sciences separately because it would create confusion. Confusion "occurs wherever argument or inference passes from one world of experience ... an example. He places physics at the doorway to the maze because he believes physics is the key to unification. The different branches of learning such as the social sciences...
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