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| a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions. |
| oc·ca·sion·al·ism (ə-kā'zhə-nə-lĭz'əm) 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. |