 In the preponderance of passages Cavendish says that there are no natural finite immaterials, and so she appears to allow that non-natural finite immaterials might have some being or other. She subsccribes to the view that only material things are real and  substantial,[19]  but perhaps she just holds that our word ‘real’ picks out things that are tangible and spatial, even if there are other existents as well. Cavendish suggests as much when she says that we might be surrounded by immaterials, but that we cannot detect them. She also writes,