When1: 1675
When2: 1688
Who: Nicolas Malebranche [Malebranche, Nicolas]
What: philosopher
Where: France
works\ Search after Truth [1675]; Christian Metaphysical Meditations [1683]; Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion [1688]
Detail: He lived 1638 to 1715 and was Occasionalist.
Epistemology
At each occasion of experience, God places experience in people. Mind cannot know the body except through God.
God holds all perceptions and ideas. God puts innate ideas into minds so they can think. People cannot know all their mind or faculties.
Error is self-deception, so people are at fault for error.
Metaphysics
God causes all actions, including will, because they are necessary. No actual causes and effects exist, only physical motions under laws. God put initial motion in all bodies.
God wills at each instant.
Mind
Individual minds are in infinite reason, love, and God, because they modify universal reason or God. People can only oppose God in their wills, not minds.
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