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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

contingentism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntˌɪz.əm/

Etymology

From contingent + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
    • Throughout this book, I use the term "contingentism" to denote a way of understanding existence that differs usefully from the standard essentialist view. 2015, Kriti Sharma, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond:
    • Necessitism is the view that necessarily everything is necessarily something (so ontology is non-contingent). Analogously, permanentism is the view that always everything is always something (so ontology is unchanging). Different ways of developing these views are distinguished. On the other side, contingentism is the negation of necessitism, and temporaryism is the negation of permanentism. 2013, Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics:

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Antonyms

necessitism

Translations (1)

it contingentismo (philosophy of contingency)