Sentence examples for in the contingencies of from inspiring English sources

Wilson's deep knowledge of insects led him to propose a new model for the evolution of altruism, which he decided was rooted in the contingencies of natural history.

However, there are some key differences in the contingencies of reinforcement between the procedures that may have implications for understanding impulsivity.

Descartes claimed that rationality in the sense of having the power "to act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act" cannot possibly be possessed by a purely physical device: "The rational soul … could not be in any way extracted from the power of matter … but must … be expressly created" (1637/1970: 1637/1970

Otis sold his first three elevators for $300 apiece and went on to the 1854 exposition at the Crystal Palace in Manhattan, where he demonstrated "the first elevator wherein provision was made for stopping the fall of the car in the contingency of the breaking of the hoisting cables".

"We believe in the contingency of progress," said Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison, in a statement.

Then he said: "I believe in the contingency of life".

Overall, animals show an increase in incorrect responses after the contingencies of stimuli are reversed.

Art fulfills this role by showing us the freedom of spirit in its purest form without the contingencies of everyday life.

I rarely stop to consider that the meaning of a work is to some degree — and maybe, in the end, entirely — captive to the contingencies of history.

Ethics are models that encode our values and operate upon the contingencies of the past in the adjudicatory function or the possible contingencies of the future in the heuristic function.

In Simon Magus, the contingency of the early Christian church flows from an image of the apostles preaching in villages, "perched on wobbly barrels".