Sentence examples for contingent causes from inspiring English sources

But it happened for highly specific and contingent causes, and the means of remedying them have not yet passed.

He does not here discuss the unintelligibility of a one-directional infinite series of contingent causes or of a circular series of contingent causes.

True to form, the punk-rock contingent caused some stir.

Inside the Stade Vélodrome there were chaotic scenes after the final whistle when Russian fans charged at the England contingent, causing them to flee.

Thus it must be replaced by (3) a determination in the contingent cause toward acting, both for the future to be known and for us to act.

Earlier in the year, there was talk of Ron Paul's contingent causing trouble, and even of a brokered convention.

Finally, it should be noted in 7 that if the contingent being identified in 1 is the universe, the necessary being cannot provide a natural explanation for it, for we know of no natural, non-contingent causes and laws or principles from which the existence of the universe follows.

Howrey had begun acceding to clients' demands for flat, deferred or contingent fees, causing income to become clumpy and unpredictable.

Clarke's version belongs to the tradition of modal cosmological arguments that employ the principle of sufficient reason to argue from a contingent series of causes to a necessary being.

A lack of empirical research to compare various turnaround strategies, contingent on root causes, becomes evident when summarizing the work on underlying distress causes as contextual factors.

Grant (2012, 267), however, thinks that neither externalist model poses a problem for aseity whether or not God causes the contingent objects he knows.