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    Supports→Descartes is wrong that the mind can sense.

    If sensation is God's causal activity producing ideas rather than the mind's passive reception of material information, then the mind does not itself sense but merely has ideas occasioned in it.

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    Causal activity(metaphysics)
    The power or action of something to make other things happen or come into being.
    Passive reception(as the way Aristotle believed perception works)
    When your senses simply take in information from the world without actively shaping or changing that information—like a camera just recording what's in front of it.
    ideas(Hume's theory of ideas)
    One of the two types of perception in Hume's framework.
    mind(Spinoza's metaphysics; 'objective reality' is Descartes's terminology for the representational content of an idea)
    The ideas — or objective reality — of bodies; the same thing as a body conceived in a different way
    occasionalism(Malebranche's metaphysics)

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    The doctrine that bodies cannot directly cause modifications in minds (or in each other); instead, a causal relation between body and mind obtains only when God intends the mind to undergo a certain modification on the occasion of a certain bodily change.
    sensation(Used by Amo to argue that sensation is incompatible with the purely active nature of the mind.)
    A purely passive reception of sensory information.

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