Is it not reasonable that as we proceed steadily from electrons to larger objects there should be no abrupt change in the nature of the laws governing the motion? Thus classical mechanics is a limiting case of quantum mechanics. (Halliday, 1960, 32)
Any theory which containsℏ cannot be a classical theory. (Kittel/Kroemer, 1980, 161)
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Weinert, F. The Correspondence Principle and the closure of theories. Erkenntnis 40, 303–323 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128901
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