"QUOD NESCIS QUOMODO FIAT, ID NON FACIS". OCCASIONALISM AGAINST DESCARTES?

Abstract

The philosophical problem that is at the origin of the principle "Quod nescis quomodo fiat id non facis" originates in Galen's "De foetuum formatione". Important works of early modern philosophy, such as Campanella "Del senso delle cose e della magia", discuss Galen's text. Due to their rejection of teleology, Descartes' physics and biology are completely foreign to the "Quod nescis" principle