# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:14.791Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Nicolas Malebranche was born on 6 August 1638 and became an Oratorian Catholic priest with a philosopher's itch. He spent his career trying to marry St. Augustine's theology with Descartes' rationalism, insisting that God wasn't a distant clockmaker but the active force behind every flicker of the world. His signature move: occasionalism, the idea that physical events don't cause each other — God steps in as the universal middleman for every single one. He also argued we see all truth directly in God's mind, a doctrine called vision in God, and leaned into ontologism, which rooted knowledge in the divine. He died on 13 October 1715, having built a system where nothing happens without God's finger on the lever.