Sentence examples for contingent statement from inspiring English sources
It is often said that the U.S. Presidency is a relatively weak office — but that is a contingent statement.
The M-form design hypothesis is a contingent statement depending upon the task interdependency and the coordination mechanism, not a universal one.
Future contingents are contingent statements about the future — such as future events, actions, states etc.
In a deterministic world there are no future contingent statements in this sense.
However, this entry is confined to the study of future contingent statements.
Anselm thought that future contingent statements based on divine revelation were true without deterministic implications.
Kripke challenged this platitude, though, of course, he did not reject the possibility of contingent statements of identity.
According to Kripke, a proper understanding of rigidity also reveals that some contingent statements are a priori.
Applying Boethius's distinction between definitely and indefinitely true statements, the author argues that future contingent statements are merely disjunctively true or false (tantum sub disjunctione); 100.13 19; 100.13 19.3).
Chrysippus in particular was convinced that bivalence and the law of excluded middle apply even to contingent statements about particular future events or states of affairs.
But Lewis' reasoning can be easily extended to show that non-transferrable tropes cannot serve as the truth-makers for contingent statements without contradicting Humeanism.
