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contingentisms

contingentisms is the plural of contingentism.

Meaning of contingentism

Noun

contingentism (usually uncountable, plural contingentisms)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about contingentisms

What is contingentisms the plural of?
Contingentisms is the plural of contingentism.

Words near contingentisms in the dictionary

  1. contingent symbiosis
  2. contingent valuation
  3. contingent valuations
  4. contingential
  5. contingentism
  6. contingentisms
  7. contingently
  8. contingentness
  9. contingents
  10. Contini
  11. continine

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