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Malebranche

American  
[mal-brahnsh] / malˈbrɑ̃ʃ /

noun

  1. Nicolas de 1638–1715, French philosopher.


Malebranche British  
/ malbrɑ̃ʃ /

noun

  1. Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). 1638–1715, French philosopher. Originally a follower of Descartes, he developed the philosophy of occasionalism, esp in De la recherche de la vérité (1674)

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“Start by just listening and acknowledging what’s going on,” said Dr. David Malebranche, an internal medicine doctor.

From Slate Jan. 16, 2021

Dr. David Malebranche of Emory University School of Medicine treats HIV/AIDS patients from a predominately black neighborhood in Atlanta.

From Reuters Jul. 23, 2012

The development of these rules will be found in the Recherche de la vérité of Malebranche.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

Although Malebranche, fervent catholic that he was, protested against the pantheism of “le misérable Spinoza,” his own system contains the undeveloped germ of this pernicious error.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

Strange confounding of will and desire, wherein the most opposite schools meet each other, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Condillac, the philosophy of the seventeenth century, and that of the eighteenth!

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

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