occasionalism: Meaning and Definition of

oc•ca•sion•al•ism

Pronunciation: (u-kā'zhu-nl-iz"um), [key]
— n. Philos.
  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.
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