There was still something otherworldly about the dancers, as though they were observers here, and were merely approximating human behavior.
The outcomes clearly highlight that none of the existing devices can mimic the typical stress histories of the different alignments, merely approximating more or less some of these.
The argument leaves it open whether soul is a perfectly respectable member of intelligible reality, the way human bodies are perfectly respectable members of perceptible reality, or whether, alternatively, soul has some intermediate status in between intelligible and perceptible being, rising above the latter, but merely approximating to the former.
Even these words seem to be merely approximate labels for them: a Mundurukú who is shown three objects will sometimes say there are three, sometimes four.
I watched in wonder as Elmer flew to and from his perch with an elegant efficiency that even the most sophisticated aircraft can merely approximate.
If a director purchases sufficient quantities of papier-mâché to suggest the settings specified in the libretto, and if singers and orchestral players merely approximate the notes in the score, you are assured of a passable evening's entertainment.
A modern scientific realist would insist that our views merely approximate the truth.
For the same reason, it needs to be distinguished from 'similarity' — the concept of merely approximate correspondence (Dann 1975, p. 997; Menne 1962, p. 44 ff.; Westen 1990, pp. 39, 120).
However, a conclusive refutation has remained elusive, principally since none of the attempts to date have unambiguously avoided the critique that they have altered the properties of (M,R) in the coding process, producing merely approximate simulations of (M,R) rather than true computational models.
Therefore, the resulting constraint trees were merely approximate, but we considered that these approximate estimations were enough to reject some alternative phylogenetic hypotheses.
