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Malebranche believed both mental ideas and bodily movements are directly caused by God
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Is it true that Malebranche believed both mental ideas and bodily movements are directly caused by God?
Yes. Malebranche's occasionalism posits that created things do not have causal power, and that God is the sole efficient cause of both mental states and physical movements.
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Wikipedia: Nicolas Malebranche. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche
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Mentions Malebranche's occasionalism and ideas in God.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nicolas Malebranche. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/malebranche/
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