Approximation ( page 55 ).
Questions.
1. What is an approximation in the mathematical sense? 2. How close an approach to exactness and certainty does approximation imply? 3. How does approximation differ from resemblance and similarity? from approach? 4. How does approximation, as regards the class of objects to which it is applied, differ from nearness, neighborhood, or propinquity?
Examples.
We have to be content with —— to a solution.
Without faith, there is no real —— to God.
Wit consists in knowing the —— of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.