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In this paper we give the gist of our reconstructed notion of (limiting case) correspondence. Our notion is very general, so that it should be applicable to all the cases in which a correspondence has been said to exist in actual science.
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Pearce, D., Rantala, V. Correspondence as an intertheory relation. Stud Logica 42, 363–371 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063853
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