contingence
contact or tangency.
Origin of contingence
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How to use contingence in a sentence
If we reflect on these considerations, the problem of determinism and of contingence will appear to us in a new light.
Here, therefore, are several different senses of the word contingence.
The one is an eternal and necessary truth, subject to no contingence, no possibility of the opposite.
contingence not even applies to essence, let alone super-essence, vi.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Of Modality: Possibility—impossibility, existence—non-existence, necessity—contingence.
British Dictionary definitions for contingence
/ (kənˈtɪndʒəns) /
the state of touching or being in contact
another word for contingency
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