The permutation $\sigma$ with $\sigma(n) = n+1$ if $n$ is odd and $\sigma(n) = n-1$ if $n$ is even -- which you could represent as the infinite sequence of integers $(2,1,4,3,6,5,\ldots)$ -- is not a limit of finite permutations.
Michael Lugo
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