The Meinongian can then deny Alien and appeal to the truth of this sentence to explain our intuitions concerning the contingency of existence.
Note, however, that Alien, the sentence two paragraphs above purported to capture our intuitions concerning the contingency of existence, is false on this view, as every individual is a necessary existent.
As far as the government is concerned, the associated contingency plan should be initiated promptly, including emergency supplies distribution, rescue and information release, etc.
This paper attempts to estimate some of the important elements concerning the environmental hazards and contingency plans along the pipeline.
But Auster's fictional concerns — the contingency of identity, the nihilism of urban living, the clarities of asceticism — have remained steadfast, even as the postmodern toolbox has grown more elaborate, demanding greater semantic complexity of its users than ever before.
In On Contingency, Leibniz remarks that "there are two labyrinths of the human mind, one concerning the composition of the continuum, and the other concerning the nature of freedom, and they arise from the same source, infinity".
The second problem concerns the normative significance of the contingency of future people upon currently living people's decisions and actions.
Commissioner Kelly said he would continue to try to deploy his officers as effectively as possible, but he voiced concern about the contingency cuts.
Despite being repeatedly urged in memos to confront Bush about the state of Washington postwar planning before a critical meeting with Bush in January 2003, the report suggests Blair backed away from raising the scale of UK concerns about the contingency planning.
If we add the assumption that necessarily, something is true if and only if it is known to God, then it is easy to see how the discussion regarding the logic of divine foreknowledge is, from a formal point of view, essentially the same discussion as the classical discussion concerning future contingency.
The medieval discussion regarding the logic of divine foreknowledge is, from a formal point of view, very close to the classical discussion concerning future contingency.
