All 18 Uses of
correspond
in
Sophie's World
- Although it was embarrassing enough, it would be even worse if her mother found out that she was doing a correspondence course with a complete stranger, a philosopher who was playing hide-and-seek with her.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)correspondence = done from afar
- During her reading Sophie glanced out of the window several times to see whether her mysterious correspondent had turned up at the mailbox.
Chpt 5 (definition 2) *correspondent = someone who writes letters
- Your generous correspondence course in philosophy is greatly appreciated by us here.
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *correspondence = done from afar via written communication
- Plato's point was that the relationship between the darkness of the cave and the world beyond corresponds to the relationship between the forms of the natural world and the world of ideas.
Chpt 9 (definition 3) *corresponds = matches in form
- For each of these three parts there is a corresponding faculty of the soul.
Chpt 9 (definition 3)corresponding = matching
- The glass was matte and scratched, and her reflection correspondingly blurred.
Chpt 10 (definition 3)correspondingly = proportionately
- But she mentioned nothing about the secret correspondence course.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)correspondence = done from afar via written communication
- So it will have described a trajectory corresponding to the marble's path across the inclined plane.
Chpt 16 (definition 3)corresponding = matching
- Descartes claims 'God's guarantee' that whatever we perceive with our reason also corresponds to reality.
Chpt 18 (definition 3)corresponds = matches
- And the clearer such ideas may be, the more certain it is that they correspond to reality.
Chpt 20 (definition 3)correspond = fit
- Hume's point is that we sometimes form complex ideas for which there is no corresponding object in the physical world.
Chpt 21 (definition 3)corresponding = matching
- Hume wanted to investigate every single idea to see whether it was compounded in a way that does not correspond to reality.
Chpt 21 (definition 3)correspond = fit together
- You remember how Descartes indicated that 'clear and distinct' ideas in themselves could be a guarantee that they corresponded to something that really existed?
Chpt 21 (definition 3)corresponded = match
- Anyway, Hume opposed all thoughts and ideas that could not be traced back to corresponding sense perceptions.
Chpt 21 (definition 3)corresponding = matching
- So now I guess I must figure out if I have had a corresponding 'complex impression' of my own ego.
Chpt 21 (definition 3)
- For her own part, Hilde had gotten up to page 124, but then she also had Sophie's story on top of all the correspondence from Alberto Knox.
Chpt 22 (definition 2)correspondence = written communication
- Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling.
Chpt 26 (definition 3)correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent
- Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling.
Chpt 26 (definition 3)
Definitions:
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(1) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afareditor's notes: For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.
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(2) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(3) (correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)