Scotus takes it as an obvious fact that there are contingent states of affairs which could have not been at that very moment of time at which they are (Ord. I.2.1.1 2, 86).
It is not often revived, for the obvious reason that boarding-school plays require a large contingent of actors with little to do except fill out the classroom scenes.
One pro argument is a reductio ad absurdum: The claim is that EXT and SK jointly entail an obvious falsehood, namely, that Oscar can know from the armchair contingent facts about the external world (McKinsey 1991 1994 200202007007, Brown 1995, Boghossian 1997 19988).
Although we measured the enterprise growth with the time to IPO, this measure presents an obvious difficulty in showing unique and diverse stages of entrepreneurial growth, contingent on corporate conditions and decisions.
Democracy as a practice is one thing; democracy as an absolute faith takes what is contingent on history and culture, and claims it is obvious and natural.
This time I'm looking forward to catching up with some of the Malian contingent - attention this year is focused on that country for obvious reasons; but also the likes of Antibalas (US afrobeat types), Novalima (from Peru)... oh, loads of people, and festival director Ian Scobie told me to make a point of catching Spanish viol player Jordi Saval.
One obvious way to respond is simply to claim that there are no future contingent events.
With obvious pleasure, Mr. Farrakhan greeted an assortment of religious and foreign political figures, including a contingent of Jews from the Neturei Karta International in Monsey, N.Y.
Given the clear skew in the repeated evolution of morphological adaptations towards closely related taxa compared to the seemingly less contingent evolution of behavior and physiology, we examined whether there were any obvious differences among these phenotypic characteristics and the type of repeated evolution or selection pressure involved in generating adaptation.
The tattoo, the most popular single event at the festival, attracts foreign contingents from around the world as well as regiments with a more obvious connection to Scotland (e.g., those from Commonwealth countries).
