contingence

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Latin contingentia, from contingēns, present passive participle of contingō (“to make contact with, to be touching”).

Farges,_ Le problème de la contingence d'après M. Bergson, (Revue pratique d'apologétique, Apr. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson
Ruth might well say that she felt as if she were living in a house of cards, although the Bolton household had no idea of the number of perils that hovered over them, any more than thousands of families in America have of the business risks and contingences upon which their prosperity and luxury hang. — The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Mark Twain
TABLE OF THE CATEGORIES 1 2 Of Quantity Of Quality Unity Reality Plurality Negation Totality Limitation 3 Of Relation Of Inherence and Subsistence (substantia et accidens) Of Causality and Dependence (cause and effect) Of Community (reciprocity between the agent and patient) 4 Of Modality Possibility—Impossibility Existence—Non-existence Necessity—Contingence This, then, is a catalogue of all the originally pure conceptions of the synthesis which the understanding contains à priori, and these conceptions alone entitle it to be called a pure understanding; inasmuch as only by them it can render the manifold of intuition conceivable, in other words, think an object of intuition. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

eventuality, contingency

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