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oc·ca·sion·al·ism    Audio Help   [uh-key-zhuh-nl-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun Philosophy.
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: 1835–45; occasional + -ism]

oc·ca·sion·al·ist, noun
oc·ca·sion·al·is·tic, adjective
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oc·ca·sion·al·ism    Audio Help   (ə-kā'zhə-nə-lĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The doctrine that God is the sole causal actor and that all events are merely occasions on which God brings about what are normally thought of as their effects.

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Occasionalism

Oc*ca"sion*al*ism\, n. (Metaph.) 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.
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