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    The mind and body are united through mutual dependence of... — Carmelics
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    The mind and body are united through mutual dependence of activity, not through any shared mode.

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    • 1.Two physical bodies are united by local presence (physical contact).
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    • 2.Two minds are united by love.
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    • 3.The mind and body are united by actual dependence: the body receives its specific motions dependently on the soul, and the soul receives its local motions (passions) dependently on the body.
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    • 1.Causal interaction between substances requires a shared ontological medium or common nature through which causal power can be transmitted.
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    • 2.Mutual dependence of activity without a shared mode simply redescribes the problem of interaction rather than solving it, as Leibniz argued against Descartes.
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    • 3.If mind and body lack any common mode, their 'mutual dependence' is indistinguishable from mere systematic correlation, which pre-established harmony explains more parsimoniously.
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    • 1.Malebranche demonstrated that finite substances cannot be genuine causes, making 'mutual dependence of activity' between mind and body metaphysically incoherent without divine mediation.
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    • 2.If God is the true cause of all mind-body correspondence, then the union is grounded in a shared relation to divine causality, not in any direct mutual dependence between the substances themselves.
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    Le Grand described the mind-body union in terms directly borrowed from Descartes. However, Le Grand attempted to explicate further than did Descartes the nature of the mind-body union. According to Le Grand, there are three kinds of union, each possessing its own principle which effects that union: the first is that of two minds whose principle of union is love; the second is that of two physical bodies whose principle of union is local presence; and the third is that of the mind and body whose
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