When1: 1630
When2: 1700
Who: Occasionalism
What: philosophic school
Where: France
Detail: School had followers of Descartes and included Louis de la Forge, Clauberg, Cordemoy, Arnout Geulincx, Gibieuf, and Nicolas Malebranche. Mental events occasion physical events, and physical events occasion mental events {Occasionalism}. People have subjective experience, which they know perfectly but no one else can know. Mental experience is not quantitative.
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