CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

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CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance) , strictly a mutual agreement or fitness of parts or

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

, that which fits or answers to a requirement in another, or more generally a similarity or parallel-ism. In the 17th and 18th centuries the word was frequently applied to relations and communications between states. It is now, outside

special

SPECIAL

applications, chiefly applied to the inter-

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. Ťa urmu', to bend)

of communications by

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

, or to the letters themselves, between private individuals, states, business houses, or from individuals to the

press

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

. The "

doctrine

DOCTRINE

of correspondence or correspondences," one of the leading tenets of Swedenborgianism, is that every natural

object

OBJECT

corresponds to and typifies some spiritual principle or truth, this being the only key to the true interpretation of Scripture. In

mathematics

MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnľar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'ľn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

, the

term

TERM

" correspondence " implies the existence of some relation between the members of two groups of objects. If each

object

OBJECT

of one group corresponds to one and only one object of the second, and vice versa, then a one-to-one correspondence exists between the groups. If each object of the first group corresponds to objects of the second group, and each object of the second group corresponds to a objects of the first group, then an a to 13 correspondence exists between the two groups. For examples of the application of this notion see CURVE.

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