Ms. Stern refers to it as a "stylistic earmark". And she is not referring to just those authors who are part of the "write what you know" contingent, or those who use their own life as fodder for their imagination.
God does not know contingent things through tensed statements, since their truth-value is changeable.
Does the fact that God knows contingent a entail that his knowledge changes when a comes into existence in time?
Just because God knows a proposition, it does not follow that the proposition is a necessary truth; God knows contingent truths, as well.
Ockham believed, as Scotus did, that future contingent propositions are true or false, that created wills are non-determined free causes and that God knows contingent events without their being simultaneously present to God. (For Ockham's view and the relevant texts, see Adams and Kretzmann 1983).
We explore Contingent Payment Mechanisms (also known as Contingent Earn-Outs) as a capital raising strategy surrounding Entrepreneurial Financing decisions.
In the environmental economics literature the stated preference approach has come to be known as "contingent valuation" as the "valuation" estimated obtained from preference information given the respondent is said to be "contingent" on the details of the "constructed market" for the environmental good put forth in the survey.
Barclays, for instance, sold a controversial type of debt, known as contingent convertible bonds.
The bank also confirmed it would use bonds known as contingent capital to pay senior staff.
This method, known as contingent valuation, asks people how much they would pay to avoid a problem.
Another recommendation that has received limited attention in Washington involves a kind of debt instrument known as contingent convertible bonds, or CoCo bonds.
