The technique in its full form. Book XII names the same operation three times: folded up in 12.10 (ὕλη, αἴτιον, ἀναφορά), as one item in the checklist of 12.8, and here unfolded, with a fourth member added. What is added is χρόνος: "the time within which this will have to cease." The analysis stops being merely logical and becomes temporal as well: a thing has a term, and the term belongs to its definition as much as its matter and its cause.

Εἰς τὸ πᾶν. "At the whole of it" — not "at every thing" but at the entire object: one is to look not at the side it has turned toward you but at all of it. The same move is in 3.11: to see it ὅλον δι’ ὅλων διῃρημένως, "whole, throughout, divided out."

What exactly is taken apart. It is αὐτὸ ἐκεῖνο τὸ τὴν TERMφαντασίαν σοι ποιοῦν — "that very thing which is producing the impression in you." That is, not the picture in the mind but the object it came from: that is what is resolved into cause, matter, reference and term, as in 3.11. Hence the verb ἀναπτύσσειν — "to unroll," as one unrolls a scroll: not to break up but to spread out and read.

Why the entry has no finite verb. Taken by itself, it is built on infinitives (ὁρᾶν, ἀναπτύσσειν), like 12.8 and 12.10; in Leopold they depend on the ἔστω of the preceding sentence. Book XII speaks ever more briefly, and this is not fatigue but a sign of completion: the techniques are no longer explained, only called over by name. The governing discipline is assent.