Grosseteste describes this as the process in which the mind is stimulated on the occasion of sense experience to seek and find its own light to turn from corruptible corporeal objects to intelligible things.
A phenomenal object is such that it affects an individual by occasioning different types of experience.
Obviously by using the word "our" in connection with James Blunt, we realise that many Britons might be occasioned to experience a fit of dyspepsia, but worry not ye of the bulging neck veins, for Blunt cares not a jot for Britain, having cancelled his UK album launch in favour of going to the States instead.
One might also point to "Reindeer Games," last year's movie about an ex-con manipulated into participating in a Christmas Eve casino robbery, in which Charlize Theron may have had occasion to experience the redemptive act of being sorry for her lying, cheating, thieving, murdering ways before she met her well-deserved demise.
All the more cause for joy, then, that they were facing this momentous occasion, this dividing line of experience, together.
In fact, as I've written on a number of occasions, recent experience pretty conclusively shows that Friedman's claims about how easy it would have been to avert depression were all wrong.
This was an awkward occasion, to experience and to judge.
All world systems may experience occasions of malfunction and failure.
There are also occasions on which, despite their lack of experience, "junior staff [are] being left in charge of the [emergency] department, highlighting a probable risk to patients", a private meeting of NHS chiefs was told last month.
They already have on several occasions and have gained a lot of experience over the years.
