1. Occasionalism is an important idea conveyed in various Upanishads and Puranas.2. The occasionalism of Geulincx is ethical rather than cosmological in its inception. 3. Al-Ghazali also used the theory to support his theory of occasionalism . 4. With regard to this second half of Malebranche's occasionalism , Hume wrote: 5. Occasionalism and the vision in God seem to make the real existence of material substance redundant.6. Hence the doctrine is named occasionalism . 7. The second part of Geulincx's philosophy is connected with Occasionalism as the effect with the cause. 8. Among the more influential theories within philosophy are Aristotle's Four causes and Al-Ghazali's occasionalism . 9. This creates a conceptual puzzle about how the two interact ( which has received some strange answers, such as occasionalism ). 10. On the other hand, he considered Leibniz's solution to the mind-body problem to be a less powerful variation on occasionalism .