Short distance is not in itself nearness.
His suggestion was to use multiple properties (nearness to some specified chemical composition) in his simulation of the genetics and chemistry of a population of single-celled organisms.
This time, it is nearness of my means and the victim's means.
What is nearness if it fails to come about despite the reduction of the longest distances to the shortest intervals?
Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness does not consist in shortness of distance.
But the nearness of their marketing to schools involved police powers and education, decidedly state functions, and as such predominant.
The neighbourhoods, in effect, encode 'nearness', though in a less quantitative way than if there were a metric (distance function).
More generally, the asymptotic nearness of f and f is an open question.
