  One might wonder how much of a concession these points are to Aristotle’s opponent. A modern scientific realist would insist that our views merely approximate the truth. But would it be enough that there be something “liker the truth”? It would be interesting to work out the implications of these ideas for Aristotle’s essentialism. Would Aristotle be sympathetic to “fuzzy essentialism” or “fuzzy realism”? How much vagueness can Aristotelian realism allow? These are issues about realism that later Hellenistic philosophers and modern philosophers consider in more detail.