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    It is not the case that Bodily motion cannot have any effect on a spiritual soul

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza's dual-aspect monism holds that mind and body are not ontologically distinct substances but two attributes of one substance.
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    • 2.If the soul-body distinction is a conceptual rather than a real distinction, the causal exclusion argument assumes what it must prove.
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    • 3.The premise that motion can only move bodies presupposes Cartesian substance dualism, which itself requires independent justification.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Occasionalism (Malebranche) grants that bodily motion lacks intrinsic causal power, yet God uses bodily events as occasions to produce mental states.
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    • 2.If divine mediation can bridge the mind-body gap, then bodily motion can be the sufficient condition for mental effects without being their efficient cause.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The motion of a body can at best have no other effect than to move another body
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    • 2.A spiritual soul is not a body
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