Definitions for occasionalism

occasionalism oc·ca·sion·al·ism

Spelling: [uh-key-zhuh-nl-iz-uh m]
IPA: /əˈkeɪ ʒə nlˌɪz əm/

Occasionalism is a 13 letter English word.

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Definitions for occasionalism

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  1. a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions.

Origin of occasionalism

First recorded in 1835-45; occasional + -ism

Examples for occasionalism

This principle was prominent in the philosophy of occasionalism, and is still by no means extinct.

occasionalism, or the doctrine that God is the immediate cause of all men's actions.

occasionalism appeared to introduce God that he might make physical matter do what it had no natural tendency to do, viz.

It results from the occasionalism attributed by Dewey to the thinking process.

Many, alarmed at the consequences which occasionalism would seem to involve, have embraced an opposite scheme.

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