Sentence examples for contingent property from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

By contrast, the definite description 'the president of France elected in 2002', which happens to express a contingent property of Chirac, is not a rigid designator because it does not pick one and the same individual in all possible worlds.

This paper develops the concept of 'shadow landscape' in order to describe the essential otherness and seemingly distinctive if ever contingent properties of in-between rural places characterised by historical depopulation and cultural marginalisation.

The design and deployment of new IT projects in complex medical settings would benefit from empirically informed understandings of, and responses to, the contingent properties of human technology relations.

Contingent properties contrast with necessary properties.

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

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