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	DOI:10.1353/cjp.2011.0043

Corpus ID: 55643409Causal 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}
}
	A. Fisher
	Published 2011
	Philosophy
	Canadian Journal of Philosophy


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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