Scotus also argued forcefully for the idea that each moment was open to contingent possibility, such that for any time t, the events at t were possible not to be the events at t. Contingency, traditionally assigned to the future, in Scotus' view superceded or governed even the hypothetical necessity of the present.
These engage with massively plural and diverse items in ourselves, in others, in myriad aspects of the non-human world, and in the infinities of contingent future possibility.
We direct our richly various mental lives – our beliefs, musings, intentions, enthusiasms, hopes, aspirations, and so on and on – at massively plural and diverse items in ourselves, in others, in myriad aspects of the non-human world, and in the infinities of contingent future possibility.
So on the assumption that contingent beings possibly exist, it must be at least possible for a necessary God to exist (for more on this kind of argument from possibility, see section 2.3 below).
As John Rawls says of what he calls "contingent pacifism," "the possibility of a just war is conceded but not under present circumstances" (Rawls 1971, 382).
So, while the moral law's authority is not here made contingent on the possibility of HGi, our commitment to the law is.
Convergent evolution reveals to us that the number of possibilities available for contingent events is limited, that historically contingent evolution is constrained to occur within a finite number of limited pathways, and that contingent evolution is thus probabilistic and predictable.
Since then he has been mostly confined to his villa, protected by a sizable security contingent guarding against the possibility of an attack by the Taliban, who have threatened to kill him.
Kripke challenged this platitude, though, of course, he did not reject the possibility of contingent statements of identity.
Since there are a large number of series-connected SMs on each arm of MMC HVDC converters, the possibility of contingent failure on one or more SMs cannot be neglected.
