be known or conceded. You have therefore asked him to concede the conclusion before it has been demonstrated, and claimed knowledge of it before that knowledge has been attained. You have thus begged the question against him and asked him to concede it to you without proof.

To clarify: knowing that, when He is described as imperceptible to the senses and incapable of being pointed to, He is not more contemptible than an indivisible atom either depends on knowing that He has no spatial location or magnitude, or it does not. If it does, this response cannot be valid until it is established that He has no spatial location or magnitude, thereby completing the answer to the objection raised against the argument. If, then, the answer to the objection cannot be completed until it is established that He has no spatial location or magnitude, yet this cannot be established until the answer to the objection is complete, neither can be established unless the other is established first. This is an impossible circularity.

If, on the other hand, knowing that He is not more contemptible than an indivisible atom when described as imperceptible to the senses and incapable of being pointed to does not depend on knowing that He has no spatial location