Sentence examples for contingent properties from inspiring English sources

Contingent properties contrast with necessary properties.

It is doubtful that the contingent properties we have discussed will serve our purpose.

These variables change with time and represent the contingent properties of the system.

Perhaps some have essential properties along with a host of contingent properties.

So working on a paper right now is one of my contingent properties.

Yet the question remains, could two gods be distinguished on the basis of a difference in their contingent properties?

Linsky and Zalta claim that being concrete is a contingent property.

The property of having sides three feet long, however, is only a contingent property of the equilateral triangle and is thereby considered to be a mode.

The definite description 'the president of France elected in 2002' happens to be true of Jacques Chirac of whom it expresses a contingent property.

If being and existence are necessary properties, then some contingent property must be offered in place that can be used to explain the intuition that (7) might have been true.

Although the virtues of this view are many, not the least of which is the simple and straightforward modal logic it validates, we are very reluctant to accept that concreteness is a contingent property.