correspondencen.
/kɒrɪˈspɒndəns/ 1.
a. The action or fact of corresponding, or answering to each other in fitness or mutual adaptation; congruity, harmony, agreement. Also said of the relation of one of the corresponding things.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]
accordmentc1330
accorda1398
consonancya1398
unitya1398
accordancea1400
commoningc1400
convenience1413
correspondence1413
answeringc1425
conformityc1430
consonance1430
congruity1447
concordancec1450
consonantc1475
agreement1495
monochordc1500
conveniencya1513
agreeance1525
agreeableness1531
concinnity1531
congruence1533
harmony?1533
concent1563
tunableness1569
agreeing1575
answerableness1577
concert1578
consent1578
sympathy1578
concord1579
symphonia1579
correspondency1589
atone1595
coherence1597
respondence1598
symphony1598
sortance1600
coherency1603
respondency1603
symbolizing1605
coaptation1614
compositiona1616
sympathizing1632
comportance1648
compliance1649
syntax1649
concinneness1655
symmetry1655
homology1656
consistency1659
consentaneousness1660
consistence1670
comportment1675
harmoniousness1679
symbolism1722
congruousness1727
accordancy1790
sameness1790
consentaneity1798
consilience1840
chime1847
consensus1854
solidarity1874
synchromesh1966
concordancing1976
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxvi. 71 Somme maneor of correspondence or relacion must nedes ben bytwene the two that ben y lyke.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxx. 293 They are in their times and seasons continued with the most exquisite correspondence.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 9 Considering..the sutable correspondence of the parts of the context.
1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. iii, in Wks. (1874) II. 37 The correspondence of actions to the nature of the agent renders them natural.
1772 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) v. 374 Perfect correspondence..between the subjects which he chose and his manner of treating them.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 10 Aug. 38 By verbal truth we mean..the correspondence of a given fact to given words.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets Micah 343 The correspondence of the punishment with the sin shall shew that it is not by chance.
b. Mathematics. A relation between two sets in which each element of one set is associated with a constant number (a′) of elements of the second, and each element of the second set is associated with a constant number (a) of elements of the first. Where a and a′ are both 1, it is called a one-to-one correspondence (see also one-to-one adj. 2).
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > [noun] > correspondence
correspondence1866
mapping1900
transformation1908
map1949
arrow1961
1866 A. Cayley Corr. Two Points in Proc. London Math. Soc. 1 3 If two points of a unicursal curve have an (a, a′) correspondence, the number of united points is = a + a′.
1882 J. J. Sylvester Coll. Math. Papers (1912) IV. 24 The theorem of one-to-one and class-to-class correspondence between partitions of n into uneven and its partitions into unequal parts.
1882 J. J. Sylvester Coll. Math. Papers (1912) IV. 38 There is thus a one-to-one correspondence, and consequently equality of content between the two systems of partitions.
1898 Proc. London Math. Soc. 29 i. 71 These quantities vanish respectively when the ray OP is in the first or second plane of correspondence through O.
1906 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 393 We thus establish a correspondence between points in the space y, and planes in the space x.
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra xii. 344 The number of many-one correspondences of the class S to a subclass of T.
1941 G. Birkhoff & S. MacLane Surv. Mod. Algebra xii. 344 Any such correspondence x → y is determined by a function y = f (x) which defines for each argument x in S a value y in T.
1949 J. G. Semple & L. Roth Introd. Algebraic Geom. iv. 58 The equation..determines an (m, n) correspondence between the variables x and y, such that to any x there correspond n value..of y, while to any y there correspond similarly m values..of x.
1959 A. G. Oettinger in R. A. Brower On Translation 257 Frequent one-to-many correspondences between Russian and English words create..one of the most perplexing problems of automatic translation.
1962 M. P. Crosland Hist. Stud. Lang. Chem. v. i. 294 In an ideal nomenclature of a science there is obviously a one-to-one correspondence between names and the things named.
2.
a. Relation of agreement, similarity, or analogy.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > correspondence, analogy, or parallelism
analogy1550
correspondency1598
parallel1599
correspondence1605
symbolization1607
corresponcy1621
homology1656
parallelism1656
analogicalness1731
analogousness1859
collaterality1872
parallelity1897
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. H1 Light..hath a relation and correspondence in..corporall thinges, to knowledge in..incorporall thinges. View more context for this quotation
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. vi. 135 The form..of their Churches was..oblong to keep the better correspondence with the fashion of a ship.
1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. i, in Wks. (1874) II. 11 There is such a correspondence between the inward sensations of one man and those of another.
1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi iii. 101 The most striking correspondence is that Arès with Mars, both used to signify war itself.
1880 Nature 1 Jan. 212/2 The special interest of this planet [sc. Mars] arising from its supposed close correspondence with the earth.
b. Doctrine of Correspondences n. the tenet of Swedenborg, that every natural object symbolizes or corresponds to some spiritual fact or principle which is, as it were, its archetype or prototype, and that the Scriptures were written in harmony with these correspondences.
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1860 J. Gardner Faiths World II. 881/2 The doctrine of Correspondences..is the central idea of Swedenborg's system.
1876 J. J. G. Wilkinson On Human Sci. 76 Now correspondences, according to which the Word of God is written, are equations between the spiritual and the natural worlds.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > fitting or sympathetic response
correspondence1530
correspondency1587
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > compliancy
correspondence1530
suppleness?1570
pliantness1578
appliableness1587
correspondency1587
flexibleness1623
complacence1626
complacency1651
complaisance1651
pliancy1663
compliance1667
compliableness1684
flexibility1703
complaisancy1710
compliancy1765
pliability1768
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 15 The..beneuolent myndes of his saied subiectes..toward his highnesse..by correspondence of gratitude to theym to be requited.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey Ded. A thankfull correspondence of affection and duty.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 90 To answer the importunity of our lusts, not by a denyall, but by a correspondence, and satisfaction.
1680 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II in Harl. Misc. Being now a king and a sovereign, he expects a correspondence of the same nature.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > between persons, communities, etc.
relationc1485
correspondency1588
intelligence1597
correspondence1599
necessitude1612
correlation1649
connection1768
belongingness1854
association1882
intercommunalism1971
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 52 Preferments to enterteine them with in good content and correspondence.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Qqq6 There were so good correspondences betwixt the Nations, that [etc.].
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 33 Our ill correspondence with the French Protestants.
1714 J. Swift Pres. State Affairs One step towards cultivating a fair correspondence with the power in possession.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iii. 110 The natural alliance..between Church and State..had given way to such a correspondence as belongs to a truce between enemies.
a. Intercourse, communication (between persons). Obsolete except as in 6.
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society > communication > [noun]
communication?1532
intercommunication1586
correspondence1605
correspondency1613
conveyance1662
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. 511 He holds That correspondence..with all that are Neare about Cæsar, as no thought can passe Without his knowledge. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 10 The Phœnicians, with whom the Grecians had a very antient correspondence.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 95 This amiable maiden has actually commenced a flirting correspondence with an Irish baronet of sixty-five.
1786 R. Burns Poems 180 A correspondence fix'd wi' Heaven, Is sure a noble anchor!
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society > communication > [noun] > of a secret nature
intelligence1523
intelligency1598
correspondence1639
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B3v If Your father..Held not or correspondencie, or conniv'd At his proceedings.
1710 W. Congreve Mourning Bride (rev. ed.) iv. i, in Wks. II. 562 Concerning Osmyn, and his Correspondence With them who first began the Mutiny.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VI. 402 Their impious correspondence with devils.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 334 To..prevent the Indians..from..carrying on any clandestine correspondence with those whom his arms had not reached.
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society > trade and finance > [noun]
mongingOE
cheapinga1000
cheapOE
chaffer?c1225
merchandisea1300
market-making1340
merchandyc1350
corseriec1380
chafferinga1382
need-doinga1382
changea1387
chapmanhoodc1386
cossery?a1400
bargaining1401
merchandisinga1425
merchandrya1450
intercourse1473
business1478
chapmanry1483
the feat of merchandisec1503
market1525
trade1549
marting1553
contractation1555
trading1556
merchantryc1560
marketing1561
mart1562
trafficking1570
contraction1582
tract1582
nundination1586
commerce1587
chafferya1599
negotiation1601
intertraffica1603
traffic1603
commercery1604
intertrading1606
correspondence1607
mercature1611
correspondency1613
coss?1635
negotiating1640
dealing1691
chapmanship1727
merchanting1883
intertrade1915
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. i. sig. I2 To serue the State Of Venice, with red herrings..from Roterdam, Where I haue correspendence . View more context for this quotation
1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. 323 Exeter..drives a very great Correspondence with Holland.
1798 W. Hutton Life 20 I wished to fix a correspondence for what I wanted, without purchasing at second hand.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > communion > [noun]
fellowredc1230
commonc1300
communing1357
brotherheadc1384
fellowshipc1384
commoninga1400
communionc1405
brotherhooda1425
sodality1602
consent1635
correspondence1642
converse1668
koinonia1907
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) xxxii. 192 I had rather speake a truth in sincerity, then erre with a glorious correspondence.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. ix. 480 An Institution..kept both by all the Churches of the Roman-Correspondence, & by all the Reformed.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 14 Fasting and abstaining from correspondence with their Wives.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things)
incurse1578
intercourse1626
commerce1634
correspondence1698
intercommunication1866
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication
intercourse1626
commerce1634
correspondence1698
intercommunication1866
1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 49 The Caspian Sea..has no communication or correspondence with any other Sea.
1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks 166/1 A secret Passage, by which the wet and moorish Ground kept a Correspondence with the Ditch.
g. figurative. Of persons and things: Vital, practical, or active communication.
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society > communication > [noun] > with things
correspondence1608
1608 G. Hakewill Vanitie of Eie 93 The braine (with which the eie holdes a maruelous correspondence).
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. ii. 47 The wise Men of the East..maintain'd a Correspondence with the Stars.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 5 How short our Correspondence with the Sun?
1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 191 Sun-dials..holding correspondence with the fountain of light.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) v. 147 In biological language he is said..to be ‘in correspondence with his environment’..that is to say, in active and vital connection with them, influencing them possibly, but especially being influenced by them.
6.
a. Intercourse or communication by letters.
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society > communication > correspondence > [noun]
correspondency1642
correspondence1644
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Not to mention the learned correspondence which you hold in forreigne parts.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) II. vi. 66 Cicero, with whom he held a correspondence of Letters.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 25 Aug. (1979) I. 514 Letter for Letter is the law of all correspondence.
1810 W. Scott Let. 18 Mar. (1932) II. 315 The risks of sentimental correspondence.
1875 A. Helps Organization Daily Life in Ess. 146 As education advances..there will be more correspondence by letters.
a1893 Mod. Newsp. This correspondence must now cease.
b. The letters that pass between correspondents; also, letters contributed to a newspaper or journal (cf. correspondent n. 4b.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > collectively
epistling1596
correspondency1699
correspondence1771
mail matter1839
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. p. vi Printing the private correspondence of persons still living.
1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 150 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 30 The Times correspondence from Hungary.
1891 Post Office Guide Apr. 33 Railway Sub-offices (i.e. offices which receive their correspondence direct from a Travelling Post Office).
Compounds
attributive:
correspondence card n. a blank card intended for use as notepaper.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper for correspondence > types of
mourning paper1635
bank paper1696
bank post1801
foreign1825
Bath-post1837
bill-head1845
mourning notepaper1846
vellum post1847
bond papera1877
correspondence card1892
notehead1892
airmail paper1933
letterhead1939
notelet1955
bluey1989
1892 G. Saintsbury in Macmillan's Mag. June 107 There are great temptations not to write letters. Telegrams, postcards, correspondence-cards, letter-cards,—all of these things the truly good and wise detest.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 333/2 Black bordered correspondence cards and envelopes.
1933 A. Selwyn Printing for Amateurs vi. 65 Correspondence Cards are 41/ 2 × 31/ 2, and Post Cards 51/ 2 × 31/ 2.
1970 L. Evans Lett. Walter Pater p. xliii White correspondence cards, approximately 11·5 by 9·2 cm, with rectangular (instead of the usual rounded) corners.
correspondence class n. a class or course conducted by correspondence.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of
summer session1594
evening class1762
summer school1793
training course1822
shop class1844
elective1850
optional1855
night class1870
correspondence class1876
Chautauqua1884
correspondence course1902
gut1902
holiday course1906
shop1912
pud1917
training seminar1917
film school1929
day school1931
refresher1939
farm shop1941
survey course1941
weekend course1944
crash programme1947
sandwich course1955
thick sandwich1962
module1966
bird course1975
1876 Monthly Packet Feb. 6 The number of pupils who join these correspondence classes increases regularly.
1878 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Nov. 768/1 The Glasgow Correspondence Classes.
1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 610/1 The Correspondence Class is intended for the extension of skilled teaching to any woman within reach of the post.
correspondence course n.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course > types of
summer session1594
evening class1762
summer school1793
training course1822
shop class1844
elective1850
optional1855
night class1870
correspondence class1876
Chautauqua1884
correspondence course1902
gut1902
holiday course1906
shop1912
pud1917
training seminar1917
film school1929
day school1931
refresher1939
farm shop1941
survey course1941
weekend course1944
crash programme1947
sandwich course1955
thick sandwich1962
module1966
bird course1975
1902 World's Work IV. 2524 He subscribes to a correspondence course.
1925 S. Lewis Martin Arrowsmith xxii. §1 The editor of the magazine which told clerks how to become Goethes and Stonewall Jacksons by studying correspondence-courses.
1929 Encycl. Brit. VI. 468/1 In 1921 the U.S. department of war established 342 correspondence courses in military tactics for reserve officers.
1942 P. G. Wodehouse Money in Bank xxviii. 291 ‘Was I very haughty?’ ‘Cleopatra could have taken your correspondence course.’
correspondence clerk n. a clerk who deals with the correspondence of a business house.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > clerical > dealing with specific type of business
room clerk1867
material clerk1900
bill-clerk1901
correspondence clerk1906
wage clerk1921
1906 L. R. Dicksee & H. E. Blain Office Organis. 8 Correspondence clerks should have a good knowledge of shorthand.
correspondence college n. a college or school which instructs by means of correspondence.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > other colleges
agricultural college1778
state college1806
ladies' college1835
fem sem1842
junior college1899
ag1905
correspondence college1911
Aggie1920
seven sisters1927
juku1962
sixth-form college1965
1911 W. Owen Let. 18 June (1967) 75 Studying with a Corresp. College at the same time.
1931 W. Holtby Poor Caroline vi. 232 I know your correspondence college is rotten.
correspondence school n.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1889 Christian Lit. Mag. I. 91 The Chautauqua School gives a certificate.., and so very properly may any correspondence school.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 789 Correspondence school representative (or business training college); calls at the homes of prospective students making preliminary enquiries to discuss course desired.
1929 Encycl. Brit. VI. 468/2 The correspondence school movement is rapidly reaching a recognized stage of permanency.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights v. 157 A strange elation filled Sacheverell Mulliner's bosom as he left the offices of the Correspondence School.
correspondence principle n. Physics a principle connecting classical with quantum physics (see quots.).
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the world > matter > physics > [noun] > specific concepts or principles of > principle connecting classical and quantum
correspondence principle1922
the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > [noun] > principle connecting theories
correspondence principle1922
1922 A. D. Udden tr. N. Bohr Theory of Spectra ii. iii. 50 The correspondence principle suggests that the radiation emitted by the perturbed atom must exhibit circular polarization.
1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World ix. 195 The classical laws are the limit to which the quantum laws tend when states of very high quantum number are concerned. This is the famous Correspondence Principle enunciated by Bohr.
1935 A. S. Eddington New Pathways in Sci. iv. 77 The classical laws of mechanics and electro-magnetism..are simply the limiting form assumed by the formulae of quantum theory... This connection is known as Bohr's Correspondence Principle.
1964 in R. G. Colodny Frontiers Sci. & Philos. vi. 253 The field theories have started moving away from the correspondence principle.
correspondence theory n. Philosophy the theory that the definition, or the criterion, of truth is that true propositions correspond to the facts (opposed to coherence theory n. at coherence n. 4b).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [noun] > theory or elements of theory of Bertrand Russell
object word1876
correspondence theory1902
object language1905
definite description1911
1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 720/1 The fundamental difficulty with a ‘correspondence theory’ is this: it assumes a reality with which that which claims to be true may be compared.
1940 B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth xvi. 232 In this case, the correspondence-theory of truth holds simpliciter.
correspondence-notion n.
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1906 H. H. Joachim Nature of Truth i. 7 A certain conception of truth is implied or expressed, which I shall call the ‘correspondence-notion’ of truth.
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