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Discover LudwigThe phrase "approximately the same idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to convey that two concepts or thoughts are similar but not identical.
Example: "While the two theories differ in some aspects, they convey approximately the same idea about human behavior."
Alternatives: "roughly the same concept" or "about the same notion".
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Aristotle also sometimes uses the shorter phrase to ti esti, literally "the what it is," for approximately the same idea).
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If you faced the same decision problem over and over again, and each time you chose option \(A\), in the long run you could expect your average utility to be approximately \ EU A)\).) The same idea extends to cases with more than two ways things could turn out simply by adding columns to the table and multiplying/summing all the way across.
The first thing we discovered was that approximately half a million people had the same idea.
Everybody has the same idea.
The same idea applies here".
Qualcomm has the same idea.
Others apparently had the same idea.
(Ms. Wintour had the same idea).
His French contemporaries had the same idea.
Other experiments illustrate the same idea.
He had the same idea in 1998.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com