Sentence examples for contingent fact from inspiring English sources

"It's a contingent fact that one is born one thing and not another.

He was interested in his interests and not the contingent fact that it was he, Borges, who was interested in them.

Independent of the contingent fact of his death, Sebald's books often read as though they are being narrated from beyond the grave.

Or was it simply a contingent fact based on our particular monetary practices?There are several large pipes involved in this particular policy dream, and even it would not banish recessions forever.

It is not a matter of contingent fact that it cannot be checked up on.

There is no more explanation of them possible than there is of any contingent fact.

Empirical psychologists are, by and large, concerned with discovering contingent facts about actual people and animals things that happen to be true, though they could have turned out to be false.

Mersenne's earliest publications, such as Quaestiones celeberrime in Genesim (1623; "Frequent Questions Concerning Genesis") and La vérité des sciences (1625; "The Truth of Science"), defended orthodox theology by distinguishing between the ultimate nature, or essence, of things (knowable only by God) and the contingent facts observable by man.

that there are no really contingent facts, although many facts "seem contingent relative to our ignorance".

Metaphysically contingent facts, by contrast, are apt for this sort of explanation.

The myriad contingent facts of each of these worlds are only hypothetically necessary.