Synonyms for contingence:
noun contingency
noun contact
Examples of uses:
If we reflect on these considerations, the problem of determinism and of contingence will appear to us in a new light.
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Title: The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method, author: Henri Poincar, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39713/39713-h/39713-h.htm
Here, therefore, are several different senses of the word contingence.
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Title: The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method, author: Henri Poincar, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39713/39713-h/39713-h.htm
The one is an eternal and necessary truth, subject to no contingence, no possibility of the opposite.
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Title: Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will, author: Joseph Haven, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45041/45041-h/45041-h.htm
contingence not even applies to essence, let alone super-essence, vi.
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Title: Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4, author: Plotinos (Plotinus), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42933/42933-h/42933-h.htm
Of Modality: Possibility—impossibility, existence—non-existence, necessity—contingence.
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Title: The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25009/25009-h/25009-h.htm
contingence applicable to Supreme, under new definition only, vi.
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Title: Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4, author: Plotinos (Plotinus), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42933/42933-h/42933-h.htm
Supreme can be attributed contingence only under new definition, vi.
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Title: Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4, author: Plotinos (Plotinus), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42933/42933-h/42933-h.htm
