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Occasion

External, often casual event, circumstance, providing an impulse for other events. Occasion differs from cause in that it may be a fact of various kinds, not connected of necessity with other events, effects (see Causality). Occasion may give rise to one or another phenomenon only because the latter has been prepared by a regular and necessary course of development. By occasion we also understand a pretext, sometimes specially chosen, for any behaviour or action.