 It is Cordemoy’s fourth and fifth axioms which, together with this conclusion, get us occasionalism. The fourth axiom states that to move is an action, and the fifth claims that an action can only be continued by the agent which initiated it. Therefore, the mind which initiates the motion of bodies, God, is the same agent who continues their motion in the present. As with those who fail to distinguish bodies from matter, the fault of those who posit finite causes are guilty of making an unsupported inference from their sense experience. Making a point that Malebranche and Hume would later echo, Cordemoy says: “When we say, for example, that body B drives body A away from its place, if we examine well what is acknowledged for certain in this case, we will only see that body B was moved, that it encountered C, which was at rest, and that since this encounter, the first ceased to be moved [and] the second commenced to be moved. But if we recognize that B gave some of its motion to C, that is truly only a prejudice which comes from what we do not see.” In good Cartesian spirit, Cordemoy is claiming that it is reason which points out the way the world must be, and that uncritical acceptance of the deliverances of the senses will only lead to error.