approximative
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Answer:—No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximative truths of the scientific hypotheses.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
And its escape is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, nor any contagium of scarlet-fever, nor any contagium of smallpox had arisen spontaneously within its limits.'
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
From this point of view the knowledge of matter that our perception on one hand and science on the other give to us appears, no doubt, as approximative, but not as relative.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
Facts, when he goes on to verify his theories, will leave him with a very few primary actions of law, a very faint approximative theory; because his theories, in plain English, will not work.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
As we remarked before, these figures and valuations, which are sufficiently approximative of accuracy for any useful purpose, will take public men and economists, both here and in Spain, by surprise.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
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