Meaning of as near as matters | Babel Free

Definitions

Close enough not to matter, or to be essentially the same.

Examples

“As near as matters, three billion people would be hearing him. And, as near as matters, one billion Martians.”

“What is needed to distinguish the two is the fact that it really was Esa rather than Twin Esa who figured appropriately in the etiology of Arabella's inner state. And that is as near as matters to saying that the truth-condition rather than the 'narrow' conceptual role is the vehicle of learning.”

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