Yes, that’s certainly what people mean generally. Now if we consider perspectives like the one elaborated by Marcel Detienne in Comparer l'incomparable[1], we can go a bit further.

The comparison no longer starts with the goal to assess distinct objects in the frame of a given more or less established framework, and instead our attention is framed toward challenging ourself. That is, anchored toward finding what frameworks would allow to assess anything meaningful. And latter on, what does frameworks and framework creation reveals about ourself.

[1] https://archive.org/details/comparerlincompa0000deti