Editing Correspondence principle (section)

===Generalized correspondence principle===

The term "generalized correspondence principle" has been used in the study of the history of science to mean the reduction of a new [[scientific theory]] to an earlier scientific theory in appropriate circumstances.<ref name="SEP"/> This requires that the new theory explain all the phenomena under circumstances for which the preceding theory was known to be valid; it also means that new theory will retain large parts of the older theory. The generalized principle applies correspondence across aspects of a complete theory, not just a single formula as in the classical limit correspondence.<ref name=PostInFrench>{{Cite book |last=Post |first=H. R. |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-1185-2_1 |title=Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: In Praise of Conservative Induction |date=1993 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=978-90-481-4229-3 |editor-last=French |editor-first=Steven |volume=148 |location=Dordrecht |pages=1–43 |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-1185-2_1 |editor-last2=Kamminga |editor-first2=Harmke}}</ref>{{rp|17}} For example, [[Albert Einstein]] in his 1905 work on relativity noted that classical mechanics relied on Galilean relativity while electromagnetism did not, and yet both work well. He produced a new theory that combined them in a way that reduced to these separate theories in approximations.
Ironically the singular failure of this "generalized correspondence principle" concept of scientific theories is the replacement of classical mechanics with quantum mechanics.<ref name=PostInFrench/>{{rp|21}}