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Noun

contingentism ‎(usually uncountable, plural contingentisms)

1. (philosophy) The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
   • 2013, Timothy Williamson, Modal Logic as Metaphysics:

     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.

   • 2015, Kriti Sharma, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond:

     Throughout this book, I use the term "contingentism" to denote a way of understanding existence that differs usefully from the standard essentialist view.

Antonyms

• necessitism

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