 Cavendish appears to be committed to the view that the only things of which we can think or speak are material things that we can detect. In some passages, she refers to God and His infinitude in order highlight that God is beyond us and to highlight the limits of human understanding. In such passages, Cavendish might be speaking of God in ways that are in tension with her view that we do not have ideas of immaterials. An alternate explanation is that she might instead be attempting to rein in the ambitions of natural reason. She writes,