Aristotle, Metaphysics IV.4 1008b34-1009a2

“[H]e who thinks that four is five is not equally as wrong as he who thinks that it is a thousand. Therefore, if they are not equally as wrong, obviously one is less wrong and so more right. Hence, if what is truer is nearer to what is true, there must be some truth to which the truer is nearer.”

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