one over many a universal; especially, a Platonic Form. According to Plato, if there are, e.g., many large things, there must be some one largeness itself in respect of which they are large; this ‘one over many’ (hen epi pollon) is an intelligible entity, a Form, in contrast with the sensible many. Plato himself recognizes difficulties explaining how the one character can be present to the many and why the one and the many do not together constitute still another many (e.g., Parmenides 131a–133b). Aristotle’s sustained critique of Plato’s Forms (Metaphysics A 9, Z 13–15) includes these and other problems, and it is he, more than Plato, who regularly uses ‘one over many’ to refer to Platonic Forms. See also ARISTOTLE, ONE – MANY PROB- LEM, PLATO. E.C.H.