When1: 1653
Who: Arnout Geulincx [Geulincx, Arnout] or Arnold Geulincx [Geulincx, Arnold]
What: philosopher
Where: Antwerp, Flanders/Netherlands
works\ Miscellaneous Questions [1653]
Detail: He lived 1624 to 1669 and was follower of Descartes and Occasionalist. Thing can only do what it knows how to do. Because no finite material thing has mind and can know anything, only God can cause things. God is not an efficient cause. God supplies fixed and general relations between physical and mental worlds by synchronizing them, so they can appear as causes or sequences.
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