contingence
[kuh n-tin-juh ns]
noun
contact or tangency.
Origin of contingence
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Related Words for contingence
predicament, accident, eventuality, emergency, possibility, likelihood, touch, touching, tangencyExamples from the Web for contingence
Historical Examples of contingence
Contingence not even applies to essence, let alone super-essence, vi.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4Plotinos (Plotinus)
Contingence applicable to Supreme, under new definition only, vi.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4Plotinos (Plotinus)
If we reflect on these considerations, the problem of determinism and of contingence will appear to us in a new light.
The one is an eternal and necessary truth, subject to no contingence, no possibility of the opposite.
contingence
noun
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