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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

Of knowledge.—Refutation of the objections to knowledge: Nicole, Malebranche and Rousseau.

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

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 Cousin, Victor

Perhaps Malebranche or Fenelon might have facilitated the transition from Petrucci to Norris and Nelson and Ken.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

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