The phrase 'occasion of use' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific event or circumstance in which something was used or employed. For example, "The occasion of use for this vehicle was a family reunion."
What's going on here is that the quantifier phrases of natural language ("all", "most", "some", etc). are to be understood, on an occasion of use, relative to a contextually determined domain.
Alternatively, we can say that a proposition is that which is expressed by a sentence on a particular occasion of use.
On the other hand, common names are like terms such as 'trio' or 'pair' in that they pick out a determinate plurality of individuals, but only on an occasion of use, since their extension is variable.
If it is the actual attitudes of the speaker that determine the property, a speaker may not use the same term to pick out the same property on each occasion of use.
For Peter, the term signifies a form, and supposits naturally for a class of objects, whereas an occurrence of the term supposits accidentally on an occasion of use for a group of those objects.
Moreover, even if the LF of a sentence S underdetermines the logical form of the proposition a speaker expresses with S (on a given occasion of use), the LF may provide a "scaffolding" that can be elaborated in particular contexts, with little or no mismatch between grammatical and propositional architecture.
Johnson's dictionary advises that it's "the contrivance of expedients after the occasion of using them is past.
So there is some sense in which "all" doesn't always mean all: On some occasions of use, "all", or "all the F's" means all (or all the F's) within a limited domain.
I remarked how odd it was to think that the word "if" could have radically different meanings on different occasions of use, for example one meaning in a sentence like "If Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, someone else did," and another meaning in a sentence like "If Oswald hadn't of killed Kennedy, someone else would have".
Verbal and nonverbal signs don't possess fixed meanings or applicability conditions independent of particular occasions of use.
'Gold', on most occasions of use, does not refer to a thing it refers to many things.
