The forms and rules of obligational debate suggested a rigorous format for exploring the contingent possibilities, which Holkot adopted.
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.
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.
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).
While it is possible that additional populations might be established in other thermal springs, this possibility is contingent upon finding springs within the species' presumed historic range that have the physical and biologic attributes, including terrestrial habitat components, that the springsnail requires to survive, and which do not support their own endemic fauna.
This case introduces the possibility for contingent agreements.
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.
