Causal and Logical Necessity in Malebranche's Occasionalism
@article{Fisher2011CausalAL,
title={Causal and Logical Necessity in Malebranche's Occasionalism},
author={A. Fisher},
journal={Canadian Journal of Philosophy},
year={2011},
volume={41},
pages={523 - 548}
}The famous Cartesian Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) espoused the occasionalist doctrine that ‘there is only one true cause because there is only one true God; that the nature or power of each thing is nothing but the will of God; that all natural causes are not true causes but only occasional causes’ (LO, 448, original italics). One of Malebranche’s well-known arguments for occasionalism, known as, the ‘no necessary
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