 An occasional cause here is described as determining God “to act in such and such a manner in such and such a situation.” The central idea is that when an event of a certain type occurs, a distinct event of a different type is brought about by divine volition, such that a regular, law-like relation holds between two types of events, each exemplified by the occasional cause and its effect respectively. A common misunderstanding about occasionalism is that if it is divine causality that anchors what occurs in the world, such grounding of natural events will render their occurrences rather irregular and haphazard. Perhaps it is the unpredictability of our own volitional activity that precipitates this assumption that volitions do not provide stable foundations for regularity. As we seen above, however, occasionalists accept the regularity of natural events as much as any realist about creaturely powers. The link that allows occasionalists to endorse regularity while grounding such regularity in divine volitions is their view that the divine volitions in question have a stable, law-like structure, thus being general in character. Here again is Malebranche: