and this meaning is intelligible and common to all the properties. We have also demonstrated that this common concept cannot be an attribute of anything else; rather, it must be the essence itself.”

The response is: This is precisely what you referred to as the basis for proving that things occupying spatial regions are alike. Raising that question and then citing in your answer something to which you have already referred is sheer, pointless repetition. You must therefore present the proof that they are alike, either at the outset or in your answer. As for leaving this question to be addressed in the answer, that has done nothing to advance the argument.

Then, as the fourth point, it may be said: We have already explained that this common element, namely