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    It is not the case that The soul cannot form sensible perceptions in itself on the occasion of particular motions in the bodily sensory apparatus

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    • 1.Malebranche argues that God, not the soul, is the true cause of perceptions, with bodily motions serving merely as occasions for divine action.
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    • 2.If God directly produces sensible perceptions in the soul on the occasion of bodily motions, the soul need not itself be aware of those motions to perceive.
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    • 3.The occasionalist framework thus defeats the inference from soul's ignorance of bodily motions to its inability to form perceptions occasioned by them.
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    • 1.Leibniz's pre-established harmony holds that soul and body operate in perfect synchrony through their own internal principles, requiring no causal or occasionalist intermediary.
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    • 2.Under this doctrine, the soul produces sensible perceptions from its own nature in correspondence with bodily states, without needing causal awareness of those states.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that awareness of bodily motions is required for occasioned perception presupposes a causal model that pre-established harmony explicitly rejects.
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    • 1.For the soul to form sensible perceptions on the occasion of bodily motions, the soul would need to be aware of those motions
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    • 2.The soul is not aware of the motions occurring in the bodily sensory apparatus
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