Sentence examples for contingent feature from inspiring English sources

Obviously this is a contingent feature of his notation: other conventions will do just as well.

It should be noted, however, that Chisholm's definition works only by implicitly relying on what is a contingent feature of our epistemic situation.

More importantly, no contingent feature of the situation could plausibly figure in an explanation of why the leap year fact is not a reason in a given case.

Moreover, if asked to cite some particular contingent feature of the situation that explains why that fact is not a reason here any sane moral agent would simply be perplexed.

But one line of thought in the literature, overlapping with the ideas above, has focused on the special features of genetic mechanisms, and on the idea of "genetic coding" as a contingent feature of these mechanisms.

On these alternative views, the coincidence of the causal and temporal orders is merely a contingent feature of the actual world, or at least a typical feature of our patch of it.

The Cavaliers' contingent featured Grant, his assistant Lance Blanks, the owner Dan Gilbert and their newly hired head coach, Byron Scott.

Organizers of a gay pride parade on Sunday will reserve a special place for a wedding contingent featuring couples who recently married here.

The latter are also determined by contingent contexts (contingent features of the state space of the relevant system).

By holding on to virtue, it seems, his mother can transcend typical, yet merely contingent features of female life.

So none of those contingent features of the case at hand will figure in an explanation of why that fact is not a reason here.