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Occasional Conformity Act
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Occasional Conformity Act, 1791. This Act prevented nonconformists from taking communion in an Anglican church to qualify for national and municipal office according to the
corporation and
Test Acts. Three previous attempts (1702, 1703, and 1704) had failed because the large Tory majority in the Commons (who aimed at depriving the Whigs of the electoral support of the nonconformists) had been frustrated by the Whig majority in the Lords. The less severe 1711 bill passed because the Whigs agreed to it in exchange for the support of the Tory earl of
Nottingham (the instigator of all four bills) against the Harley ministry's peace policy. The Act was repealed in 1719.
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Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...of the essays discuss the development of occasionalism and preestablished harmony in major seventeenth...implies that Descartes held some form of occasionalism. Descartes's occasionalism, however, appears not to extend beyond...
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Leibniz on Concurrence and Efficient Causation
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...different answers to this question: occasionalism, mere conservationism, and concurrentism...Malebranche, among others, defended occasionalism, the view that God is the only causal...words, he is not an occasionalist. Occasionalism maintains that God must act for any...
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The development of physical influx in early eighteenth-century Germany: Gottsched, Knutzen, and Crusius. (Johann Christoph Gottsched, Martin Knutzen, August Friedrich Crusius)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...other. Thus, Malebranche develops Occasionalism, which solves the problem by denying...opposes to Pre-established Harmony and occasionalism and dubs "influxus physicus" or...doctrines of Pre-established Harmony, Occasionalism, and Physical Influx.(4) Physical...
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Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 46, No. 4, October 2008.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...Malebranche's Two Arguments for Occasionalism, SUKJAE LEE Malebranche presents two major arguments for occasionalism: the "no necessary connection...skeptical naturalism. Francois Lamy, Occasionalism, and the Mind-Body Problem...
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Al-Ghazali on power, causation, and 'acquisition'.(Abu-hamid al-Ghazali)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Western tradition has coined the term 'occasionalism' for this doctrine, according to...earliest articulation of the idea behind occasionalism might be the one that emerged in the...al-Ghazali did, in fact, espouse occasionalism. L. E. Goodman and Ilai Alon, for...
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American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 79, No. 2, Spring 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...teachings of the Church. Malebranche's Occasionalism: A Strategic Reinterpretation, ALAN...thesis of Malebranche's doctrine of occasionalism is that God is the sole true cause...the gap between T and full-fledged occasionalism. Specifically, it is needed to rule...
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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...a brief interlude on causation and occasionalism (chapter 7), focus on thinking substance...Early in chapter 7 on "Causation, Occasionalism, and Force," Woolhouse examines...Descartes a genuinely perplexing attenuated occasionalism, crying out for explanation. A measure...
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COLUMN: 'Theory' of gravity skewed
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...another physical theory that exists called "occasionalism." Occasionalism states that when a rock hits a window, God...occasion to break the window. Just like gravity, occasionalism is a theory: There is no way to definitely...
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Journal of the Hitory of Philosophy: Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2005.(Philosophical Abstract)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...to his own principles. Cordemoy and Occasionalism, STEVEN NADLER This paper offers a...Cordemoy's commitment to the doctrine of occasionalism. It is argued that while Cordemoy...grounds for assessing Cordemoy's occasionalism (especially with respect to the mind...
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Gerauld de Cordemoy; atomist, occasionalist, Cartesian.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2006; 476 words
; ...the notion that Cartesian metaphysics led inevitably to occasionalism. Along with providing an introduction to Cordemoy's arguments...century thought and breaks down his attachment to atomism, occasionalism and Cartesianism in turn, explaining Cordemoy's approach...
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occasionalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
occasionalism metaphysical doctrine that denies that finite...theologians in the 8th cent. developed a version of occasionalism as an alternative to Aristotelian theories of causality. Occasionalism gained currency in the West in the 17th cent...
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Occasionalism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Occasionalism. The philosophical theory of the relation of mind to matter which denies that finite things have efficient causality and postulates...
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Nicolas Malebranche
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...a set of doctrines that is known as occasionalism. Born in Paris, Nicolas Malebranche...science and of Descartes's philosophy. Occasionalism is a theory of causal interaction...time together. The culmination of occasionalism and of Malebranche's study is found...
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Mind-Brain Interaction
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...each mental event and each physical event. Male-branche's version of psychophysical parallelism is sometimes called occasionalism for this reason. In the monist theory of Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher, thought...
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Malebranche, Nicolas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...denied that any action of matter upon mind was possible, and explained sensation as the effect of a new creative act in the mental order to correspond with things in the physical creation (‘ Occasionalism ’).
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