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OCCASIONALISM (Lat. occasio, an event)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 966 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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