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Meaning of OCCASIONALISM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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