Congruence principle

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.
• In linguistics and etymology, the more contributing languages a linguistic feature exists in, the more likely it is to persist in the emerging language. 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."
• 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.

See also

• Equivalence principle