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• OCCASIONALISM (Lat. occasio, an event)

OCCASIONALISM (See also:

• LAT

Lat. occasio, an event)  , in See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, a See also:

• TERM

term applied to that theory of the relation between See also:

• MATTER

matter and mind which postulates the intervention of See also:

• GOD

God to bring about in the one a See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change which corresponds to a similar change in the other . The theory thus denies any See also:

• DIRECT

direct interaction between matter and mind . It was expounded by See also:

• GEULINCX, ARNOLD (1624-1669)

Geulincx and See also:

• MALEBRANCHE, NICOLAS (1638-1715)

Malebranche to avoid the difficulty of See also:

• DESCARTES, RENE (1596-1650)

Descartes's See also:

• DUALISM (from rare Lat. dualis, containing two, from duo)

dualism of thought and See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension, and to explain See also:

• CAUSATION

causation . Thus mind and matter are to Geulincx only the " occasional " causes of each other's changes, while Malebranche, facing further the epistemological problem, maintains that mind cannot even know matter, which is merely the " occasion " of knowledge .