Sentence examples for as contingent from inspiring English sources

"It is of the nature of Reason to regard things as necessary and not as contingent.

Typically, we would think of Peter's denial as a free act, and hence as contingent.

If Frankfurt is right, Cartesian eternal truths are not really necessary; they "are inherently as contingent as any other propositions" (42).

Some concrete individuals — those traditionally (mis- categorized as contingent beings — are only contingently concrete.

Contingently true and contingently false propositions are known collectively as contingent propositions.

Take every apparently emerging pattern as contingent and unstable.

The bank also confirmed it would use bonds known as contingent capital to pay senior staff.

Barclays, for instance, sold a controversial type of debt, known as contingent convertible bonds.

This method, known as contingent valuation, asks people how much they would pay to avoid a problem.

During mystical experiences, spiritual phenomena may appear to be ultimate, self-existing, and divine or may be experienced as contingent.

It considers their value not as the total obligation, but as "contingent liabilities" — meaning what it expects it could possibly lose.