contingentism
/kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntˌɪz.əm/
contingentism noun: the philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
Noun
contingentism (usually uncountable, plural contingentisms)
- The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
- 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...2013, Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics
- 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
Antonyms of contingentism
- necessitism
Forms of contingentism
| plural | contingentisms |
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Origin of contingentism
From contingent + -ism.
Questions about contingentism
- What does contingentism mean?
- Contingentism means the philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
- What part of speech is contingentism?
- Contingentism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce contingentism?
- Contingentism is pronounced /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒəntˌɪz.əm/.
- What is the plural of contingentism?
- The plural of contingentism is contingentisms.
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