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機会原因論 (きかいげんいんろん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun
occasionalism
A philosophical doctrine, primarily associated with Malebranche, asserting that God is the only true cause and that created things are merely occasions for divine action.
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Descartes' mind-body dualism is sometimes regarded as a precursor to occasionalism.
Kanji 機 loom, mechanism, machine 原 meadow, original, primitive 因 cause, factor, be associated with Similar words 因いん 果が 論ろん 因果論 is a broader term for theories of causality, while 機会原因論 specifically refers to the occasionalist doctrine that denies secondary causation.
心しん 身しん 二に 元げん 論ろん 心身二元論 is the mind-body dualism that occasionalism sought to resolve by invoking divine intervention.
Etymology A Japanese calque of the English philosophical term 'occasionalism', composed of 機会 (occasion), 原因 (cause), and 論 (theory).
