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    It is not the case that The human mind cannot have sensation of material objects.

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    • 1.The human mind is a purely active spiritual substance.
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    • 2.Sensation is a purely passive process.
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    • 3.A purely active substance cannot engage in purely passive processes.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Malebranche's occasionalism holds that God is the sole true cause, meaning finite minds never directly contact material objects.
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    • 2.What we call 'sensation' is God producing ideas in the mind on the occasion of bodily states, not genuine mind-matter interaction.
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    • 3.Therefore, the mind experiences only God-mediated ideas, never material objects themselves, confirming their mutual inaccessibility.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Leibniz's monadology entails that monads are windowless, receiving no causal input from external material substances.
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    • 2.Each mind unfolds perceptions from its own internal program via pre-established harmony, with no genuine reception from matter.
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    • 3.Sensation is thus an internal representation coordinated with bodily states, not a genuine awareness of external material objects.
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