  There is plenty of textual evidence that the attempt of Neoplatonist commentators of Late Antiquity to reconcile the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle on the issue of universals was closely followed in Byzantium by prominent thinkers like John Italos, Eustratios of Nicaea, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Nikephoros Choumnos and George (Gennadios) Scholarios. More specifically, Byzantine philosophers as a rule adopted the Neoplatonist commentators’ three ways of understanding genera (and species) terms as referring to: