This suggests that the intrinsic excitability of NAc MSNs, although clearly related to the stage of withdrawal, does not depend on contingent or non-contingent cocaine administration.
According to the second understanding, science is objective in that, or to the extent that, the processes and methods that characterize it neither depend on contingent social and ethical values, nor on the individual bias of a scientist.
Can universities fulfill the promises of academia if they depend on contingent labor?
One response to this is to restrict 'sure loss' to those losses that do not depend on contingent facts.
Values are defined as absolute objectives, which is to say they do not depend on contingent situations that individuals assume as guiding principles in making choices (Schwartz 1992).
The methodological recommendations depend on contingent factors, such as the operative methodological norms, the questions under investigation, the background assumptions that the agent brings to inquiry, the observational means at her disposal, her cognitive capacities, and her epistemic aims.
For if Reductionism is true, then it seems likely that time's topological features will depend on contingent facts about the relations among things and events in the world, whereas if Platonism is true, so that time exists independently of whatever is in time, then time will presumably have its topological properties as a matter of necessity.
"For people who have talent, our doors are open". But Microsoft's use of temporary workers has thrust it in the center of a hotly contested class-action lawsuit whose outcome could have wide-reaching implications for the thousands of companies that depend on contingent workers.
Sayer (2000) suggests that (1) explanation depends on identifying causal mechanisms and how they work, discovering if they have been activated and under what conditions (Sayer 2000), and (2) the social world can produce different outcomes due to local conditions as events are not predetermined before they happen, but rather, depend on contingent conditions.
On such a view, which set of propositions constitutes the set to which a given agent is related by encountering a fictional text depends on contingent facts about what their world is like.
If the subjunctive intensions associated with terms like 'pain' or 'quark' vary depending on contingent facts about the actual world, then the move from the epistemic possibility of zombies to their metaphysical possibility will be blocked.
