Questions tagged [contingent]
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In The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, is it allowed for necessary being to have alternatives(like different versions of that category)?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that if something could have been diffferent then that thing can not be necessary. My question is can a simultaneosly ...
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what is the definition of a necessary fact in the contingency argument?
how can we define a necessary fact in the contingency argument in a way which does not lead us to the ontological argument? (exists in all possible worlds)
the contingency argument is:
A contingent ...
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could the set of all contingent facts be necessary?
I was thinking about the PSR. when it comes to the set of all contingent things, it seems that the set must also be contingent and could fail to exist because each member could fail to exist. but ...
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Is the universe 'necessarily' contingent?
My question arises from a debate I had seen between Mohammed Hijabi and Alex O'Connell (the debate) where it seems like Hijabi was admitting to the fact that all contingent things must come from and ...
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Does the encoding/exemplifying distinction affect the question of willing evil-for-the-sake-of-evil-in-general?
I tend to gravitate towards thinking that willing evil for its own sake "as such," is impossible for reasons of the nature of practical reasoning/intellection. I can accept that there is ...
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How do we know that anything is contingent?
From what I gather, the idea of a contingent event means that it could have been otherwise. But since we can’t play back the universe, how do we know that it could have been otherwise?
Note that by ...
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Can someone explain to me what a contingent fact is?
English is not my first language and I'm trying to understand Williams Argument in "Deciding to believe" when he says that it is not possibe to bring about belief at will and that this is ...
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Are well formed "if, then" statements non-contigent truths?
Say I have a little unease with statements like "the world follows/obeys the law of non-contradiction, so x". But statements like "if the world obeys the lnc, then x", appear so ...
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