  At the end of chapter 4, Aristotle says that however much things “are so and not so”, there “is a more and a less in the nature of things”, for someone who thinks that four things are five is less wrong than someone who thinks that they are a thousand, and so there must be some truth to which the more true is nearer. He adds that even if there is not some truth to which the more true is nearer, “still there is already something firmer and liker the truth, and we shall have got rid of the unqualified doctrine which would prevent us from having anything definite in our thought” (Metaph IV 4 1009a2–5). He first points out that we can make comparative judgments, even if we do not make absolute judgments, and that comparative judgments presuppose some absolute standard. But even if there is no absolute standard, something truth-like is presupposed and so we will not be prevented from having anything definite in our thought.