The subjunctive mood is used in dependent clauses that do the following: "in grammar, designating or of that mood of a verb used to express condition, hypothesis, contingency, possibility, etc., rather than to state an actual fact: distinguished from imperative, indicative".
The determinists, he says, are neither entitled to maintain a coherent concept of luck and the fortuitous, nor of contingency and possibility, nor of deliberation and potency.
According to the contingency theory, organizational decisions are based on rational considerations about the costs and benefits of different possibilities.
- ST: Structural contingency theory.
Q: Should the government prepare a contingency for the possibility of even more people having to be deployed?
As described elsewhere (Menzel [1991], 348), Prior's modal logic "cannot distinguish the expression of [a's] contingency from the possibility of manifest repugnancies".
Others believe that the idea of free choice does not require anything like real contingency or the possibility of doing or intending otherwise (see the entries on compatibilism and free will).
As there had been no such outbreak since they had received the previous stocks, these should still be available as an adequate contingency, with the possibility of quickly mobilizing additional stocks from the Central Medical Stores should an outbreak occur.
"We will, as you would expect us to have, contingency plans for various possibilities, possibilities that could relate, and I'll broaden this to issues that Alex Brummer [of the Daily Mail] raised earlier globally: issues in financial markets, issues such as could be related to Scotland, so we have contingency plans we develop.
Theophrastus replaced Aristotle's two-sided contingency by one-sided possibility, so that possibility no longer entails non-necessity.
Our aim is rather to find approximations of the post-contingency stability boundary, in pre-contingency parameter space, while including the possibility for post-contingency corrective controls.
