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    God is the cause of sensible perceptions in the soul whenever corresponding motions occur in the sensory organs

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    • 1.Bodily motion cannot directly act on the soul as a physical cause
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    • 2.The soul cannot form sensible perceptions in itself on the occasion of bodily motions
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    • 3.Sensible perceptions do in fact arise in the soul when corresponding bodily motions occur
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    • 1.Pre-established harmony (Leibniz) explains soul-body coordination without God intervening causally at each moment of perception.
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    • 2.A God who must continuously intervene to produce each sensation is less perfect than one whose creation operates through intrinsic programmed coordination.
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    • 3.Occasionalism renders natural causation a mere fiction, making the lawlike regularities of nature inexplicable as genuine features of the world.
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    • 1.Spinoza's dual-aspect monism holds that mental and physical events are identical modifications of one substance, eliminating the explanatory gap occasionalism invokes.
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    • 2.If mind and body are parallel attributes of a single infinite substance, no tertiary divine cause is needed to correlate bodily motions with sensible perceptions.
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    Arnauld says that it is “easy” to eliminate the first alternative: “For since the motion of a body can at best have no other effect than to move another body (I say at best because it may have not even that), who does not see that it can have no effect on a spiritual soul?” (Examen, OA, 38:146). He adds that St. Augustine considered it beyond doubt that a body can have an effect only on our body, and not on our soul. Arnauld rules out the second of his three alternatives on the grounds that the
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