Word Meanings - OCCASIONALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Intervention
  The act of intervening; interposition.
• Schoolfellow
  One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
• Systematical
  Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic co
• Systemless
  Being without system.
• SYSTEMATICSYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology.
• Actionary
  Alt. of Actionist
• Causewayed
  Alt. of Causeyed
• Occasional
  Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
• Schoolgirl
  A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
• Systematically
  In a systematic manner; methodically.
• Theories
  of Theory
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Actionist
  A shareholder in joint-stock company.
• Causeyed
  Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved.
• Occasionalism
  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.
• Schoolhouse
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• Systematism
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

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