occasionalism
noun
a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions.
occasionalist
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a word derived from
occasionalism.
Example Sentences
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You cannot be an occasionalist without being a voluntarist, and every voluntarist has taken at least the first step on the road to occasionalism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It seems as though the reproachful description 'Deus ex machina' should be reserved for more arbitrary expedients than Aristotle's or Leibniz's, say for the occasionalist theory.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
