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In his Nihāyah, he presented another argument for denying spatial direction. We shall quote it, although its premises are already included in our discussion, to complete our account of what he said on this subject. He wrote:

“The second question: He is not in a spatial direction.”

He said: “Before proceeding to the proof, we must examine whether it is conceivable for something that is not a body to be situated in a spatial direction. If this is inconceivable, then the proof denying corporeality suffices to deny spatial direction.”

He said: “Those who affirm spatial direction while denying corporeality claim that we know self-evidently that states of being pertain to particular spatial directions, such as the state inhering in the upper part of a wall and the state inhering in its lower part.