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import React from 'react';
export default function Occasionalism() {
return (
<div className="space-y-6 font-mono text-sm leading-relaxed">
<p>
<strong className="text-current">Occasionalism</strong> is a
philosophical theory about causation which says that created substances
cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to
be caused directly by God.
</p>
<div className="border-l-2 border-emerald-500/50 pl-4 py-1 italic opacity-70 text-xs">
"Fire doesn't burn cotton. God creates burning when fire touches
cotton."
</div>
<p>
This view was famously held by Al-Ghazali and later by Nicolas
Malebranche. It denies a necessary connection between cause and effect
in the physical world.
</p>
</div>
);
}