Dialogue

 1 1|    argument made use of upon that occasion. But (to pass by all that
 2 2|          said, it may still be an OCCASION.~PHIL. How many shapes is
 3 2|       affirming that matter is an occasion, having already denied it
 4 2|         what sense you understand OCCASION, pray, in the next place,
 5 2|          believe there is such an occasion of our ideas?~HYL. As to
 6 2|         As to the first point: by OCCASION I mean an inactive unthinking
 7 2|       they could not be to Him an occasion of acting.~PHIL. Not to
 8 2|         God, which are to Him the occasion of producing ideas in us?~
 9 2|          to think, this notion of OCCASION seeming now altogether as
10 2| SUBSTRATUM, cause, instrument, or occasion? You have already pleaded
11 2|    neither cause, instrument, nor occasion, but Something entirely
12 3|       universe? I may indeed upon occasion make use of pen, ink, and
13 3|     mediation of an instrument or occasion, called MATTER, you as truly
14 3|           SUBSTRATUM, INSTRUMENT, OCCASION, or ABSOLUTE EXISTENCE.