n. An ideological system which maintains that God and divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and the intuition of God's existence the first act of our intellect.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In theology, the doctrine that the human intellect has an immediate cognition of God as its proper object and the principle of all its cognitions.
Word Usage
"Arnold Geulincx 1625-1669 1 developed the ontologism and occasionalism which were latent in the Cartesian separation of mind and matter, and in the Cartesian principle that matter is essentially inert."