Occasionalism Definition

ə-kāzhə-nə-lĭzəm
noun
In post-Cartesian philosophy, the doctrine that, since mind and matter cannot interact, the intervention of God is required to synchronize corresponding acts of mind and movements of the body.
Webster's New World
The doctrine that God is the sole causal actor and that all events are merely occasions on which God brings about what are normally thought of as their effects.
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Occasionalism Sentence Examples

  • This occasionalism is not idealism, but its emphasis on the will of God gave it an idealistic tendency.

  • His theory of the connexion between the soul and the body is in some respects analogous to that of Malebranche; but he is not therefore to be regarded as a true forerunner of Occasionalism,.

  • It is Cordemoy's fourth and fifth axioms which, together with this conclusion, get us occasionalism.

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