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OCCASIONALISM (Lat. occasio, an event)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Lat. occasio, an event)  , in
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philosophy, a
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term applied to that theory of the relation between
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matter and mind which postulates the intervention of
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God to bring about in the one a
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change which corresponds to a similar change in the other . The theory thus denies any
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direct interaction between matter and mind . It was expounded by
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Geulincx and
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Malebranche to avoid the difficulty of
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Descartes's
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dualism of thought and
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extension, and to explain
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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 .

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