Scientific knowledge concerns itself with the world of necessary truths, which stands apart from the world of everyday contingencies, the province of craft.
To understand why he thinks this, we need to consider his claim that art in modernity "falls apart" (zerfällt) into the exploration of everyday contingencies, on the one hand, and the celebration of witty, "humorous" subjectivity, on the other (PKÄ, 151).
Studies of street life such as Random Family, Code of the Streets, and American Project show how these experiences are now internalized in the social and psychological fabric of neighborhood life, a constant reality in the background of childhood socialization, and an everyday contingency for young men as they navigate the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Dust is threatened from one side by the Authority and the Church, who fear the everyday and its contingency, who fear even more the risk of error and tragedy that are part of the everyday, part of adult experience.
Abstraction has been said by some to universalise human experience, to lift us away from and beyond the disappointing contingencies of everyday life, to be dealing, in short, with the essences of things.
Art fulfills this role by showing us the freedom of spirit in its purest form without the contingencies of everyday life.
Things which admit of change are, e.g., the contingencies of everyday life; things which do not admit of change are, e.g., the necessary truths of mathematics.
The point of art, therefore, is not to be "realistic"—to imitate or mirror the contingencies of everyday life but to show us what divine and human freedom look like.
Processing of probabilistic information may pose a particular problem for ADs and PGs, accounting for the difficulty to adapt behavior in everyday life (where reward contingencies are not always as consistent and clear-cut as in our experiment).
My grandparents knew too much about human frailty and the contingency of everyday life to ask me the kinds of questions I was asking myself, such as, How could you have allowed this to happen?
Russell, like Pythagoras and Plato before him, believed that there existed a realm of truth that, unlike the messy contingencies of the everyday world of sense-experience, was immutable and eternal.
