know - be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"
Occasion is usually understood as an impersonal, anonymous, and unexpected vehicle, or moment, something effectively beyond the ability of the human subject to foreknow its appearance.
[GB] The words containe a supposition: If we say we haue no sinne, & a sequell, we deceaue ourselues & there is no truth in vs (If) we say | what doth not God foresee and foreknow whether we will say so or no?
Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or that they can fortell the form as surely as they foreknow the spirit of events: such is the pretence of superstition which would make poetry an attribute of prophecy, rather than prophecy an attribute of poetry.
When Oedipus then wonders, "But surely I must fear my mother's bed?" it is Jocasta, that mother, risen from their bed, who would quell those doubts: "Why should man fear since chance is all in all / for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing?" (976-78).
Thus he is able to create randomness, to foreknow its outcomes, and to ensure that his will is accomplished--not in spite of randomness, but as we saw in Section 6, because randomness is one of the means of accomplishing his will.