Sentence examples for approximate ideas from inspiring English sources

The world to the pragmatist is in flux; observation is at best approximate; ideas are tools and all judgment is provisional.

And evidently, it seems that more than 95% of the cosmos is made up of dark matter and dark energy, two highly approximate ideas we really don't understand one bit.

Essentially, at least for me, one only has the most approximate idea of where the characters and story might go.

"Even if a transcript is imperfect, it gives the user an approximate idea of what was said".

Combining this with numerical weather prediction data enabled us to gain an approximate idea of what could happen if we had an all-out nuclear war.

Could the average newspaper reader and television viewer gain an approximate idea of what was happening in both countries over the past eight years?

He had only an approximate idea of the story he would unfold, but he had decided it would include the episode of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London of 1780.

These repetitions feel sloppy, as, quite frequently, does their execution; you often have no idea whether there is an actual position that Mr. Parsons requires his dancers to achieve, or whether there is just an approximate idea of that step.

Here Mr. Seife must resort to occasional mathematic formulas, and any reader not adept will have to be satisfied with getting an approximate idea of what the author means when, for instance, he writes: "Despite the power of calculus, the key problem remained.

You can guess what these things will be like; you can ask people; you can draw up lists of pros and cons; but, at the end of the day, "without having the experience itself" you "cannot even have an approximate idea as to what it is like to have that experience".

In this way, a remote purchaser has only an approximate idea of a time to actually retrieve the order.