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33Does Continuous Creation Entail Occasionalism?: MalebrancheCanadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 413-439. 2000.‘God needs no instruments to act,’ Malebranche writes in Search 6.2.3; “it suffices that He wills in order that a thing be, because it is a contradiction that He should will and that what He wills should not happen. Therefore, His power is His will”. After nearly identical language in Treatise 1.12, Malebranche writes that “[God's] wills are necessarily efficacious … His power differs not at all from His will”. God exercises His causal power, here, via His volitions; what He causes depends not m…Read more
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3The new schizophrenia: Diagnosis and dynamics of the homeless mentally illJournal of Mind and Behavior 15 (3): 199-222. 1994.
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58Malebranche's doctrine of freedom / consent and the incompleteness of God's volitionsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (1). 2000.'God needs no instruments to act', Malebranche writes in Search 6.2.3; 'it suffices that He wills in order that a thing be, because it is a contradiction that He should will and that what He wills should not happen. Therefore, His power is His will' (450). After nearly identical language in Treatise 1.12, Malebranche writes that '[God's] wills are necessarily efficacious ... [H]is power differs not at all from [H]is will' (116). God's causal power, here, clearly traces only to His volitions - no…Read more
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