occasionalisticadj.
/əˈkeɪʒn̩əlɪstɪk/, /əˈkeɪʒn̩l̩ɪstɪk/, /əˈkeɪʒənl̩ɪstɪk/, /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəlɪstɪk/, U.S. /əˌkeɪʒ(ə)nəˈlɪstɪk/ Philosophy.
Of or relating to occasionalists or occasionalism.
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Cartesian1656
occasional1854
occasionalistic1884
occasionalist1891
1884 J. T. Merz Leibniz i. v. 100 He admits its advance on the..occasionalistic theory of Descartes.
1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends xii. 262 Here again the parapsychical or Leibnician seems preferable to the occasionalistic alternative.
1922 Philos. Rev. 31 573 Holding the most extreme occasionalistic position, Père Roche maintains that all of our ideas, even those of sense, are given to us directly by God.
1986 Philos. Rev. 95 340 Despite the occasionalistic ring to this latter quotation, her point is that on what she refers to as ‘Descartes's best account of embodiment’, the union of mind and body is nothing other than their interaction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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