Sentence examples for such contingent from inspiring English sources

But in order to be a legislator of universal laws, such contingent motives, motives that rational agents such ourselves may or may not have, must be set aside.

While there may be such (contingent) facts that lack grounds (e.g., facts concerning the fundamental physical magnitudes), these are the sorts of facts that can have grounds but simply happen not to (where 'can' is understood epistemically).

Holkot argued, the possibility of a counterfactual past differentiated propositions about the future on contingent matters and their equivalents--whether set in the past or present--from propositions about the past and present that are not about such contingent matters.

Given his stated aim to account for specific features of matter e.g., particular aggregation states, special forces one would think that such contingent features are a problem for empirical science not philosophy, since Kant sees the latter as pursuing knowledge that is, in various senses, necessary.

Greenspan said that current calculations of the federal government's budget deficit and fiscal outlook understate the risk of long-term trouble, because they do not take into account such "contingent liabilities" as the risk of a major Wall Street bank collapsing.

We show that such optimum contingent payment might be designed for a range of different types of contingent payments, for which we present a novel taxonomy.

As closed-form solutions underlay the terms of such optimum contingent payments, we provide a tractable analytical tool for Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists to easily contract these Contingent Payment Mechanisms.

The band was the first such military contingent from Pakistan to visit the United States, a Pakistan army official said.

His writing has also become rather orotund and over-complex (his passion for words such as contingent, canonical, and, above all, maximal, is particularly maddening).

In this study, the opportunity cost method was chosen, although other studies propose alternatives such as contingent valuation and conjoint measurement for valuing informal care [10].

In this sense, not only mathematical truths but indeed such apparently contingent facts as Caesar's having crossed the Rubicon are necessary truths for Spinoza.