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"In attempting to deal with this difficulty [of the parallelist theory], Malebranche introduced the theory 'occasionalism' to the effect that, on the occasion when the alarm rings, God produces in the mind the hearing of the alarm. But this desperate attempt to explain the correlation of mental and physical without resorting to direct causal action between them has never appealed to the modern mind."
p. 64
— Nov 03, 2016 05:09PM
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is on page 77 of 117
"In attempting to deal with this difficulty, Malebranche introduced the theory 'occasionalism' to the effect that, on the occasion when the alarm rings, God produces in the mind the hearing of the alarm. But this desperate attempt to explain the correlation of mental and physical without resorting to direct causal action between them has never appealed to the modern mind."
...as I said, hilarious...
— Nov 03, 2016 05:10PM
...as I said, hilarious...
r0b
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...the person theory seems to end with the absurdity that a person's body is not a _physical_ thing."
P. 56-57
— Oct 16, 2016 08:30PM
P. 56-57
r0b
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"It is essential to persons, on Strawson's conception of them, that they be entities which necessarily have _both_ mental and bodily attributes...
It is then, one of the paradoxical implications of the person theory that the body which a person has cannot be conceived of as a physical object subject to the laws of the physical world...
— Oct 16, 2016 08:28PM
It is then, one of the paradoxical implications of the person theory that the body which a person has cannot be conceived of as a physical object subject to the laws of the physical world...
r0b
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"Confronted on the one side by the English materialist Hobbes and on the other side by the French dualist Descartes, Spinoza said, in effect, a plague on both your houses."! :)
— Oct 16, 2016 06:56PM
r0b
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"Nothing here said rules out that there could be a tribe somewhere [Rorty's Antipodeans?] for whose members these causal conditions did not obtain. But they could not learn our concept of pain."
— Sep 24, 2016 11:13PM
