Contingent

From Geography

Contingent or contingency in philosophy or sociology means the proposition that is neither true nor false under every possible valuation. The proposition is not necessarily true nor false. A contingency refers to a part of the proposition, which in that given proposition is correct. But under different circumstances would have been false. For example: the proposition that all husbands are married is true, no matter what the circumstances. One cannot be without the other. But the proposition that all T-Fords are black is true, but is not necessarily true in any given circumstance. They happen to have made only black models but who is to say someone has not given a single model a different colour?

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