In the concluding reflection of the pivotal tenth section of the Living Forces, Kant recognized the contingency of the pressure-propagation ratio (1 24.26 8), inferred that other ratios would generate continua with other dimensions (1 24.28 30), and surmised that a science in command of the dimensional range would be the highest geometry achievable (1 24.31 3).
Recognizing the contingency of these values and the vocabulary in which they are expressed, while retaining the commitments, is the attitude of the liberal ironist.
Once we recognize the contingency of perceptions of commonality and otherness, it might seem that the very idea of a progressive's dilemma relating to immigration is unhelpful or misguided.
An "ironist," in Richard Rorty's sense, is someone who recognizes the contingency of her discourse and "does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others [sic], that it is in touch with a power not herself".
Some are content to be purely descriptive about this, while others, taking a stronger position against X, argue that we should construct our categories differently and do away with X, or at least view the category of X with some suspicion and recognize its contingency.
The amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and insula were selected on the basis of their central role in human fear conditioning (for a review, see Sehlmeyer, Schöning, Zwitserlood, Pfleiderer, Kircher, Arolt & Konrad, 2009), whereas the hippocampus was selected for its recognized role in contingency learning (e.g., Knight, Smith, Cheng, Stein, & Helmstetter, 2004).
Noting that things didn't have to play out the way they did and recognizing that contingencies are a large part of history, Caryl concedes that "to study 1979 is also to study the tyranny of chance".
This leads us to an eclectic view that explicitly recognizes various contingencies that shape both the costs and benefits of shifting power from shareholders to managers via ATPs.
Riparian negotiations encourage movement from sovereign rights to functional needs, the use of time as a flexible variable, a focus on beneficial uses, and the creation of language recognizing local contingencies.
The introduction of the contingent a priori is perhaps less surprising than the introduction of the necessary a posteriori, in view of the plausible contingency of a priori statements that philosophers all along recognized, like the plausible contingency of the statement, as uttered in a context, 'I exist'.
The lack of adequate real and reactive power resources during system heavy load conditions and severe system contingencies has been recognized as a major factor in a voltage collapse process.
