  Elsewhere, Aristotle usually seems to mean that the attributes not a part of the science are removed. What is left may be particular, a quasi-fictional entity. It is the status of this entity which leads to much controversy. Is it a representation in the soul or is it the perceptible object treated in a special way? Ancient and medieval readers tended to take the former approach in their interpretation of Aristotle, that the object left is a stripped down representation with only the required properties. (Cf. Mueller (1990) and neo-Platonic foundations for these interpretations of mathematics, such as Proclus in his commentary on Euclid.)