Please help me with this doubt from electrostatics

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in deriving the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor why do we take the field between the capacitors as σ/∈ and not 2σ/∈,when there are two plates and in the region between the capacitors, field must add up so shouldn't it be 2σ/∈?
 
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