occasionalism - A view popularized by Nicolas Malbranche whereby: (1) the mental and the material comprise two different kinds of substance; (2) neither has any direct causal effect on the other and; (3) all seeming interactions between the two are due to the continual intervention by God who brings about a change in one on the occasion of a change in the other. See dualism, doctrine of preestablished harmony, parallelism.
McCracken, C.J. (1983). Malebranche and British philosophy. Oxford: Oxford
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