Crossword-Solution: CONTINGENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contingence | n. | See Contingency. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTINGENCE (5)
The “cosmological” one, so‐called, reasons from the contingence of the world to a First Cause which must contain whatever perfections the world itself contains.
Did not His eye rule all things, and intend The least of our concerns (since from the least The greatest oft originate), could chance Find place in His dominion, or dispose One lawless particle to thwart His plan, Then God might be surprised, and unforeseen Contingence might alarm Him, and disturb The smooth and equal course of His affairs.
Boutroux’s thesis _De la Contingence des Lois de la Nature_ appeared in 1874 and was dedicated to Ravaisson.
Lachelier, in attacking the purely mechanistic conception of the universe, endeavoured, as he himself put it, “to substitute everywhere force for inertia, life for death and freedom for fatalism.” Rather than universal necessity it is universal contingence which is the real definition of existence.
Boutroux, summing up his thesis _La contingence des Lois de la Nature_, indicates clearly in his concluding chapter his belief in contingency, freedom and creativeness.
Quotes with CONTINGENCE (1)
In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every subject plays his part as such specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence; he achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out towards other liberties. There is no justification for present existence other than its exp…