 Understood in this manner, occasionalism can be understood as a metaphysics of causation that suggests a more discriminating attitude toward what are typically taken to be causal interactions operative in this world. On this characterization, the occasionalist resists a univocal understanding of these apparent causal interactions and identifies two types of relations in the world, that of genuine causation and that of occasional causation. In addition to this issue of the scope of occasionalism, we will, in the following sections, examine how occasionalism addresses these issues aforementioned concerning the relation between divine and natural causation, and what arguments are presented in favor of occasionalism. We begin, however, with a brief discussion about its history.