And it bears no close approximation to the truth.
It is, in the present state of knowledge, the best approximation to the truth.
Where else should people turn for some rough approximation to the truth?
The additive error model is a useful approximation to the truth.
His auditors, Mr. Volcker said, "found as close an approximation to the truth as it's possible to find after all this time".
This step was necessary for progress to be made, and it was such a wonderfully accurate approximation to the truth for describing motions that are slow compared to the speed of light that it withstood all tests for more than two centuries.
Claimed, or alleged, revelations are many, diverse, and not infrequently conflicting; without going in a small and vicious circle, it cannot be claimed, simply by appealing to a given putative revelation, that the revelation is the "true revelation" or the "genuine revelation" and that others are mistaken or, where nonconflicting, mere approximations to the truth.
It is sometimes said that, granting the above arguments and the partiality and defectiveness of the laws of Science, still they are approximations to the truth, and as each fresh fact is introduced the consequent modification of the old law brings us nearer and nearer to a limit of rigorous exactness which we shall reach at last if we only have patience enough.
This thesis of incommensurability, developed at the same time by Feyerabend, rules out certain kinds of comparison of the two theories and consequently rejects some traditional views of scientific development, such as the view that later science builds on the knowledge contained within earlier theories, or the view that later theories are closer approximations to the truth than earlier theories.
A logical truth leaves the location of the truth wide open, so it is practically worthless as an approximation to the whole truth.
In a 1970 interview with Joseph Gelmis, Kubrick explained: In the end, the screenplay credits were shared while the novel, released shortly after the film, was attributed to Clarke alone, but Clarke wrote later that "the nearest approximation to the complicated truth" is that the screenplay should be credited to "Kubrick and Clarke" and the novel to "Clarke and Kubrick".
