 Arnauld’s attack on TNG began in a surprising way, with the publication of On True and False Ideas (hereinafter Ideas) in 1683. In it, Arnauld presents his own position on the nature of ideas, which was described above, and argues that Malebranche’s view that we see all things (or at least all bodily things) in God and by means of God’s ideas is not only mistaken, but thoroughly confused and wrong-headed. This work engendered a preliminary debate that lasted for two years. The publication of Réflexions in 1685–86, preceded in 1685 by the publication of Arnauld’s Dissertation sur les miracles de l’ancien loi, provoked further exchanges between the two in 1687, with a last gasp on Arnauld’s part in 1694, the year of his death, and on Malebranche’s part ten years later, in  1704.[16]