He said:

“This is false for several reasons.

First: If it were self-evident, it would be impossible for so many people to agree in denying it—namely, everyone other than the Hanbalīs and the Karrāmiyyah.

Second: The concept of a human being is common to individuals occupying different spaces and having different sizes. Considered in itself, therefore, it cannot have a determinate size or occupy a determinate space; otherwise, it would not be common to all individuals.

If you say: ‘But a human being, considered simply as a human being, exists only in the mind, whereas the discussion concerns things existing outside the mind,’

I reply: ‘The point is that it is not impossible to conceive of something to which the intellect ascribes neither direction nor size. This rules out that premise being self-evident.’

Third: We cannot conceive of imagination and the estimative faculty themselves as having