The term congruence principle may refer to any undertaking that seeks to align apparently disparate things. Specifically, it may refer to:

  • In economics, the principle of fiscal equivalence, i.e., the false model in which the circle of buyers can be made to equate exactly with the circle of sellers.
  • In education, the notion that principles such as Bloom's Taxonomy assist in maintaining congruence among various educational undertakings.[1]
  • In linguistics and etymology, the more contributing languages a linguistic feature exists in, the more likely it is to persist in the emerging language.[2] See phono-semantic matching.
  • In mathematics, the application of principles associated with Cavalieri's principle.
  • In medicine, the corollary principle of metabolism that holds that "present-day metabolism holds traces of the primitive chemistry and could serve as a valuable source of inspiration in the elaboration of theories."[3]
  • In psychology, a corollary to the principle of cognitive dissonance, the notion that it is impossible for a person (or organisation) to live too long where there is incongruity between a belief and a behavior. It's based on the principle of poetic justice.
  • In taxonomy, two biological classifications have taxonomic congruence if it can be hypothesized that the two derive from the same theoretical phylogenetic tree.

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References

  1. ↑ Applying the "Congruence" Principle of Bloom's Taxonomy to Designing Online Instruction.
  2. ↑ See p. 48 in Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, Hybridity versus Revivability: Multiple Causation, Forms and Patterns. In Journal of Language Contact, Varia 2 (2009), pp. 40-67.
  3. ↑ de Duve's "Congruence Principle"
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