Sentence examples for every contingent from inspiring English sources

Some reply that this argument for the contingency of the universe still is fallacious, for even if every contingent being were to fail to exist in some possible world, it may be the case that there is no possible world that lacks a contingent being.

God is what grounds the existence of every contingent thing, making it possible, sustaining it through time, unifying it, giving it actuality.

Every contingent of dancers will have their different custom themes and usually surprise and stun the audience in equal measure with their performances.

The "Catalogue of Ships," in Book 2, is a prodigious history lesson, complete with the names and numbers of every contingent of the Greek fleet; the sheer recitation of it must have been an astonishing tour de force in performance — epic poetry's answer to CinemaScope.

The "Catalogue of Ships," in Book 2, is a prodigious history lesson, complete with the names and numbers of every contingent of the Greek fleet; the sheer recitation of it must have been an astonishing tour de force in performance epic poetry's answer to CinemaScope.

Truthmaker maximalists hold that every truth (or at least every contingent truth) has a truthmaker.

For every subject and every available cash amount, based on her previous decisions, we compute the optimal consumption for every period, contingent on the fact that (i) she is alive and (ii) owns a given actual positive wealth.

Whereas traditional cosmological arguments contend that we need to explain the existence of every relevant contingent causal condition in order to explain another's existence (Scotus's ordering of per se causes), Swinburne terms this requirement the completist fallacy (1979, 73).

Recently Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss (1999) advanced a modal version of the cosmological argument that rests on the weak PSR (for every true contingent proposition, it possible that there is an explanation for that proposition) and Modal Axiom S5 (if it is possible that it is necessary that p, then it is necessary that p).

In a blockchain system, too, every line is contingent on what came before it.

Absenteeism remained high, and every success was contingent; it took a month to get Pedro into school, whereupon he failed all of his courses.