  In the Analytics, where the notion of matter is absent, Aristotle begins with a particular geometrical perceptible figure. What is removed is its particularity and all that comes with this, including its being perceptible. What is left then is a universal of some sort. Aristotle also does not seem to think in this work that there is any conflict between the plurality problem and thinking of all terms in a mathematical deduction as universals. However, since he allows that a term can be a very complex expression, it can designate a rich complex for which there would probably be no corresponding Form in a Platonic theory.