Sentence examples for examples of contingent from inspiring English sources

However, whether the examples of contingent identity in the literature are persuasive enough to make it reasonable to accept the certainly initially surprising idea that modal predications are inconstant in denotation is still a matter of considerable controversy.

Indeed symbiogenesis itself of one of the examples of contingent irreversibility Szathmary and Maynard Smith stress, as a rung on what looks very like a ladder of advancing complexity.

This extra vespoid constriction may act to enhance any dexterity conferred by the apocritan "wasp waist" in an example of contingent radiation [ 12], and could enable effective use of the sting in defence [ 97].

An analogous account can be given of Kripke's examples of the contingent a priori: these concern sentences whose primary intensions are necessary and whose secondary intensions are contingent.

Many dispute that the examples really are examples of the contingent a priori (Plantinga 1974, pp. 8 9n.; Donnellan 1977; Hughes 2004, pp. 84 107).

Further, Kripke's examples of the contingent a priori are perhaps more controversial than his examples of the necessary a posteriori.

I believe there are 4 clear examples of VADD contingent on Trump's own ADD.

Hence it is an example of a contingent proposition that is knowable a priori (cf., Evans 1979: 83 85, for his discussion of this topic).

Our study is one of the first representative studies in South Africa and in Africa to examine the health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting – examples of casual or contingent work.

Thus Kaplan claims that his logic of indexicals provides examples of Kripke's (1980) contingent a priori truths.

An example of how the weakness of contingent liability accounting affects disclosure can be seen in the environmental disclosure field.