preestablished harmony, doctrine of - A view originated by G. W. Leibniz 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) the coincidence between mental and material events is due to both substances being created to act in concert even though there is no post-creation interaction between the two. See dualism, occasionalism, parallelism.
Leibniz, Philosophical Essays. ed. and trans. R. Ariew and D. Garber. In Hackett (1989).
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