What Do You Mean by Occasionalism?

Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. ... The doctrine states that the illusion of efficient causation between mundane events arises out of God's causing of one event after another.

What is meant by the term occasionalism?

Occasionalism, version of Cartesian metaphysics that flourished in the last half of the 17th century, in which all interaction between mind and body is mediated by God. It is posited that unextended mind and extended body do not interact directly.

What is occasional cause?

1a : a mental state (as desire or decision) considered as the occasion but not the real cause of a physical phenomenon (as bodily behavior) b : a physical phenomenon considered similarly as the occasion of a mental state — compare occasionalism.

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