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"what being is to becoming, [BLANK] is to [BLANK]."
What is "truth is to convincingness"?
The two motions of the gods.
What are, 1) rotation, 2) revolution?
The key distinction which opens our Timaeus passsage.
What is "that which always is" vs. "that which becomes"?
Why there must be only one universe.
What is, because if there were two, there would need to be another Living Thing to contain them?
Lycophron omitted this word.
What is, "is"?
"Now what is to us plain and clear at first is rather confused masses, the [BLANK] and [BLANK] of which become known to us later by [BLANK]"
What are, 1) elements, 2) principles, 3) analysis?
Four kinds of living things in the Timaeus.
What are, 1) gods, 2) winged, 3) live in water, 4) feet and lives on land?
The supremely beneficial function by which we acquire philosophy.
What is sight?
The Timaeus' definition of time.
What is the "number" of the "moving image of eternity"?
The ancients correctly identify the principles as these.
What are contraries?
"If [BLANK] and [BLANK] are distinct, then these 'by themselves' things definitely exist--these [BLANK], the objects not of our sense perception, but of our understanding only."
What are 1) understanding, 2) true opinion, 3) Forms?
Three components of soul in the Timaeus.
What are, the Same, the Different, and Being?
The two things by which our Timaeus passage is divided into two inquiries.
What are Intellect and Necessity?
You cannot argue against someone who denies these.
What are first principles?
Two words disambiguated in Physics 1.2.
What are "is" and "one"?
"Only [BLANK] are said to come to be without qualification."
What are "substances"?
Five ways things comes to be (Physics 1.7).
What are, 1) by change of shape, 2) by addition, 3) by taking away, 4) by putting together, 5) by alteration?
The three things that existed before the universe came to be.
What are 1) being, 2) space, 3) becoming?
Everything comes to be from these two things (Physics 1.7).
What are "subject and form"?
The number of principles.
What is 3?
"Whether the [BLANK] or [BLANK] is the substance is not yet clear." (Physics 1.7)
What are "form" or "what underlies it"?
The five primary solids of the Timaeus.
What are 1) tetrahedron, 2) octahedron, 3) Icosehedron, 4) cube, 5) dodecahedron?
The elements and their corresponding shapes.
What are, earth = cube; fire = pyramid (tetrahedron); air = octahedron; water = icosehedron?
Aristotle's definition of matter.
Parmenides' error.
What is "his assumption that 'is' is used in a single way"?