Adjective : Our plans are contingent on the weather. ,They had to plan for contingent expenses. ,contingent occurrences. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the New York contingent at a national convention. From Dictionary.com.
Therefore a life lived contingently was the true life. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Wheel]
It is evident that material substances exist contingently. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Thomas Aquinas] Reference
For this statement might be true necessarily or contingently. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
There are contingently true statements, as we have seen: e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
For (by Prop. xi.) he exists necessarily, and not contingently. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
Lumpl™ is contingently true, Gibbard gives up the thesis that. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
(7: 14) That this is A is contingent ¡ This is contingently A. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Whatever it intends to happen contingently, happens contingently. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The nine qualities contingently associated with a soul or person are. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools of Indian Philosophy] Reference
And if what she has said is indeed true, then she exists contingently. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Meantime, I may consider I have the refusal of it contingently, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
But its plausibility comes from considering contingently existing objects. From Wordnik.com. [God and Other Necessary Beings] Reference
But there is still the possibility that the statement is contingently true. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
(8: 6) (Quantity) B is contingently A ¡ (Quantity) B is contingently not A. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Do moral judgments motivate necessarily or do they motivate only contingently?. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Motivation] Reference
So we would draw the conclusion that the Strong Principle is contingently true. From Wordnik.com. [The Identity of Indiscernibles] Reference
According to Nelkin, these two are only contingently related to pain experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
Presumably the premiss would not be proposed as anything more than contingently true. From Wordnik.com. [The Identity of Indiscernibles] Reference
What it actual is contingently so if, instead of being actual, it could be not actual. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference
Phosphorus™ was only discovered empirically to be true, it must be contingently true. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
I'm not such a fool as to ask of any woman -- least of all of you -- to love me contingently. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
˜Hesperus = the brightest non-lunar object in the evening sky™ is true but contingently so. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
It does not exclude the freedom of the will, but realizes its effects contingently by means of it. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
C™ is contingently true, as ˜Hesperus = the brightest non-lunar object in the evening sky™ is. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
Its effect is either that it should happen contingently, or that it should happen through necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
As reasons motivating B's cooperation, B's desires and fears are only contingently related to A's goals. From Wordnik.com. [Jürgen Habermas] Reference
Thus ˜I exist™ is a logical truth that is only contingently true at some contexts in some LD structures. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
The Madhyamaka explanation clarifies this point: the object is only contingently a toy, not ultimately a toy. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha] Reference
In other words, a proposition is contingently true when it is true in that world and false in some other world. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
Spiritual mentors are only contingently doctors inasmuch as they can validly function as doctors for disciples. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha] Reference
It might not hold for abstract objects, which according to many exist not contingently, but necessarily if at all. From Wordnik.com. [Logic and Ontology] Reference
If not, I ask, how is the effect determined in its cause before it is put into being, necessarily or contingently?. From Wordnik.com. [Francis of Marchia] Reference
Contingency: A proposition is contingently true if and only if it is true in this world and false in another world. From Wordnik.com. [Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics] Reference
The reason that the sentence is contingently true is that ˜one meter™ is a rigid designator for the length one meter. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
Some logical truths that are peculiar to indexicals are merely contingently true at some contexts in some LD structures. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
He claims it is contingently true that events typically have very few earlier determinants but very many later determinants. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
This feature of Armstrong's view, that dispositions are contingently identical with their causal bases, exposes that view to Prior. From Wordnik.com. [Dispositions] Reference
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