Sentence examples for contingent proposition from inspiring English sources

So no contingent proposition is known.

Then "a exists" must be a contingent proposition.

For example, "Unicorns exist" is a contingent proposition.

A sentence is necessary (possible, contingent) just in case it expresses a necessary (possible, contingent) proposition.

It is clearly a contingent proposition, and empirical evidence is required to know it.

But this proposition is contingent, so Mary can have a priori knowledge of a contingent proposition.

Contingently true and contingently false propositions are known collectively as contingent propositions.

Ockham had not adopted the terminology of "indeterminately true or false" and "contingently true or false" to speak of the truth status of future contingent propositions.

Pictures can't express negative or contingent propositions - it's not raining, or if it's raining that will spoil the picnic.

Many necessary propositions, such as "All husbands are married," are a priori though it has been argued that some are not (see below Necessary a posteriori propositions)—and most contingent propositions are a posteriori.

He was the first to distinguish "truths of reason" from "truths of fact" and to contrast the necessary propositions of logic and mathematics, which hold in all "possible worlds," with the contingent propositions of science, which hold only in some possible worlds (including the actual world).