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edition of the complete works  Géraud de Cordemoy, (October 6,
1626 - October 15, 1684) was a French philosopher, historian,
and lawyer, known for his works in metaphysics and for his
theory of language. Though a lawyer by profession, Cordemoy was
a prominent figure in Parisian philosophical circles. He was one
of the early Cartesian philosophers, active during the decades
immediately following the death of Descartes.  His major works
include Le Discernement du corps et de l'âme (The
Differentiation of the Body and the Soul, 1666), in which he
incorporated atomism into a Cartesian mechanistic system, and
pointed out that the two elements of mind and body in any human
being often fail to correspond with each other. Along with
Arnold Geulincx and Louis de Laforge, he developed
occasionalism, the doctrine that body and soul were essentially
and causally distinct and that it was only God who all