ALL meanings of occasionalism
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O o - noun occasionalism a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions. 1
- noun occasionalism The doctrine ascribing the connection between mental and bodily events to the continuing intervention of God. 1
- noun occasionalism the post-Cartesian theory that the seeming interconnection of mind and matter is effected by God 0
- noun occasionalism 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 0