Meaning Of The Word Occasionalism

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occasionalism in American English
in post-Cartesian philosophy, the doctrine that, since mind and matter cannot interact, the intervention of God is required to synchronize corresponding acts of mind and movements of the body
noun: a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions

occasionalism in British English
noun: the post-Cartesian theory that the seeming interconnection of mind and matter is effected by God

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