occasionalist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a supporter of occasionalism, the doctrine that apparent causal interaction between created things occurs only through divine intervention

   The occasionalist denied that mind and body act directly upon one another.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to occasionalism or its supporters

   The philosopher offered an occasionalist account of bodily motion.

From occasionalism + -ist. The doctrine's name uses occasion in the sense of an event that gives God the occasion to produce another event, rather than one created thing directly causing another.

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