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Definition: OCCASIONALISM |
OCCASIONALISMNoun1. The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body. |
"OCCASIONALISM" is a common misspelling or typo for: occasional, occasionally. |
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One of the motivations for the theory is the Dualist belief that mind and matter are fundamentally different things, and one cannot affect the other. Thus, a person's mind cannot be the true cause of his hand moving, nor can a physical wound be the true cause of mental anguish - in other words, the mental cannot cause the physical and vice versa. Still, Occasionalists generally also held that the physical cannot cause the physical either - apparently because of arguments similar to that of David Hume, who said that we cannot perceive any necessary connection between causes and effects. Thus, Occasionalism brings in God to fill this gap, since what God wills is taken to be necessary.
In a strict formulation of Occasionalism, the physical world never has any direct effect on anyone's perceptions. Considerations like this led George Berkeley to go beyond Occasionalism, and do away with the physical world entirely; Berkeley maintained that there was no such thing as matter, but merely perceptions, caused in us by God.
Nicolas Malebranche is well-known for his association with Occasionalism.
''Compare: Pre-established harmony
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Occasionalism."
| Language | Translations for "OCCASIONALISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | okazionalizëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | العرضية أو المناسبية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оказионализъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nahodilost (contingency, fortuitousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | occasionnalisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | okkazionalizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | occasionalismay irregular (atypical, bumpy, catchy, crenelated, disorderly, erratic, fitful, inequable, informal, inordinate, irregular heartbeat, jaggy, jerky, joggly, jolty, knockabout, laceration, lawless, ragged, rough, scratchy, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven, wayward). (various references) ocazionalism. (various references) окказионализм. (various references) okazionalizam. (various references) ocasionalismo. (various references) okkasionalism. (various references) оказіоналізм. (various references) achlysuraeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "OCCASIONALISM" (pronounced 'Oc*ca"sion*al*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
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| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: iconoclasms. | |
-3 letters: calcinosis, iconoclasm, occasional, simoniacal. | |
-4 letters: laconisms, mainsails, maiolicas, moccasins, moonsails, occasions, scoliomas, simoniacs, socialism. | |
-5 letters: acclaims, animalic, anosmias, camisias, classico, clonisms, colicins, colonics, coniosis, cosmical, iconical, isonomic, laconism, laicisms, liaisons, limacons, locoisms, mainsail, maiolica, malisons, maniocas, miscoins, moccasin, moonsail, occasion, omission, salicins, sciolism, scolioma, silicons, simoniac. | |
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