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correspondence

assigned, not verified What this family covers, what it fails to cover, and every relation string in the graph that lands in it. A family is assigned: two models read the definitions document and named the same kind of relation, or a person ruled where they did not. Verified is the other layer: a quote checked letter-exact against its paragraph and judged by a model of a different family. That was already done before any of this began.

151 assigned relations 38 effective relation strings 39 queued items carry a string this family covers 1 declared pair
graph-wide: 1669 assigned · 354 awaiting a ruling · 65 no family · 3 text undecided · 2091 relations

Definition

Quoted from docs/FAMILY_DEFINITIONS.md v0.7.2, family 5. The atlas quotes that document; it never paraphrases it.

Two terms answer each other across registers or traditions — structural likeness asserted without identity. The workhorse of the comparative method.

Boundary: weaker than identity (see the equivalence placements), stronger than amplification (which is an adduced widening, not an asserted relation between the terms).

Relation strings that land here

corresponds-to 66parallels 19resembles 8is-analogue-of 7coincides-with 6is-psychic-analogue-of 6correlated-with 3amplified-by 2is-counterpart-of 2is-equivalent-of 2reflects 2runs-parallel-to 2and 26 more, 26 relations between them

The number beside a string is how many relations carry it. 26 of these strings occur exactly once. The tail is the informative part: a string used once usually carried its own qualifier in the sentence it came from. A string can appear under more than one family, and does: assignment is made to an edge in its paragraph, never to a string in the abstract.

seeds: the examples the definition names

declared pairs

A declaration licenses a row in the other direction when the query panel's closure toggle is on, and nothing else. It is read at query time and never written into the graph.

pending a ruling: items carrying a string this family covers

Nigredo amplified-by The Shulamite CW 14 §592
arms-disagree
Coniunctio amplified-by Tifereth & Malchuth CW 14 §18
arms-disagree
Rebis / Hermaphrodite amplified-by Anthropos / Adam Kadmon CW 14 §652
arms-disagree
The shadow amplified-by Sol niger (black sun) CW 14 §172
arms-disagree
Sol amplified-by Gold (aurum) CW 14 §134
arms-disagree
Rex (the King) amplified-by Lion (leo) CW 14 §409
arms-disagree

33 more. These are edges whose two model arms did not agree, or whose agreement the calibrated gate disputed. They carry a relation string this family covers, which is not the same as belonging here. The ruling has not been made, and the queue is not a backlog to be cleared by machine.

Checked against readers of Jung

Checked against 8 works of scholarship: across the sample, 8 of 16 treated items agreed with our family. This family: 2/3 agreed, 1/3 disagreed, 0/3 split, 2 not treated.the whole table
familyagreesdisagreessplitnot treated
archetypal-identity (incl. 26)0/31/32/32
correspondence (incl. 27)2/31/30/32
symbolization3/30/30/31
doctrinal-attribution1/21/20/21
amplification0/33/30/30
controls (personif., union)2/20/20/20
All8/166/162/166

A row this small is the items themselves; no rate over a handful of items carries precision worth reporting. The check asked which kind of relation a reader of the literature would say Jung asserts, not whether Jung's claim is true, which the verification chain had already asked of the paragraph. The disagreements stand beside the agreements because hiding them would make the table an argument rather than a record. Full worksheets: docs/experiments/external_validity_2026-08/.

Agreement is not endorsement: no scholar reviewed this vocabulary, and the sample is small enough to name in a sentence.

receipts counts read from seed.json sha256:9dc668bfff36 via web/family-map.mjs;
definition and seeds quoted from docs/FAMILY_DEFINITIONS.md v0.7.2;
external-validity row from docs/experiments/external_validity_2026-08/results.json (report v3, closed 2026-08-12);
built 2026-09-05

These families are this project's classification. They are calibrated inside this repository, checked once against outside scholarship on a small sample, and endorsed by nobody. What the layer records is how we sorted relations Jung wrote: a map of assertions, not a reading of him.