Sentence examples for contingent sentences from inspiring English sources

These are, respectively, the tautologous, inconsistent, and contingent sentences of the predicate calculus.

This idea won't work properly if the truth-values of some contingent sentences are presupposed.

They should be maximally supported by all claims C. One important respect in which inductive logic should follow the deductive paradigm is in not presupposing the truth-values of contingent sentences.

The probability P is said to be regular iff the condition of P3 is also necessary, i.e., iff no contingent sentence has probability one.

But if the missing premise is a contingent truth (it has to be true with respect to the time indicated by the verbs of the consequence, otherwise the original material consequence does not hold), then the original material consequence holds only in some situations, namely the situations in which the contingent sentence happens to be true, and is thus an as-of-now consequence.

For, the whole idea of inductive logic is to provide a measure of the extent to which contingent premise sentences indicate the likely truth-values of contingent conclusion sentences.

However, in contingent matter both sentences may be false.

Suspending a prison sentence contingent on an organ donation is considered highly unusual, if not unprecedented, legal experts said.

Legal experts said suspending a prison sentence contingent on an organ donation was highly unusual and might be unprecedented.

However, if a is a contingent being, this sentence is unstatable at worlds where a fails to exist, and hence is neither true nor false in those worlds.

Perhaps the most plausible is that Boethius holds that, if an event e is contingent, then the sentence 'e will take place' is false, even if it turns out that e does in fact happen, because 'e will take place' implies that e will take place necessarily.