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English-Thai Dictionary

occasionalism

N ทฤษฎี เกี่ยวกับ ฤกษ์ ยาม หรือ โอกาส

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OCCASIONALISM

OCCASIONALISM Oc *ca "sion *al *ism, n. (Metaph.)

Defn: 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.

New American Oxford Dictionary

occasionalism

oc ca sion al ism |əˈkāZHənlˌizəm əˈkeɪʒənlɪzəm | ▶noun Philosophy the doctrine ascribing the connection between mental and bodily events to the continuing intervention of God.

Oxford Dictionary

occasionalism

oc ¦ca ¦sion |al |ism ▶noun [ mass noun ] Philosophy the doctrine ascribing the connection between mental and bodily events to the continuing intervention of God.