Sentence examples for contingent statements from inspiring English sources

We hope they will see the value in asking, "When doesn't this work?" Researching that question will help them decipher the set of circumstances in which managers might find themselves and then frame contingent statements of cause and effect that take those circumstances into account.

In a deterministic world there are no future contingent statements in this sense.

Future contingents are contingent statements about the future — such as future events, actions, states etc.

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.

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.

So we cannot posit facts as truth-makers for contingent (atomic) statements without going against Humeanism (Lewis 1992: 200, 1998: 215 6, 2001: 611).

31 Contingent (subset) statements were present in about 29%.

He partly exempted future contingents, or statements about unsure future events, from the law of excluded middle, holding that it is not (now) either true or false that there will be a naval battle tomorrow but that the complex proposition that either there will be a naval battle tomorrow or that there will not is (now) true.