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单词 contingent matter
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contingent matter
a. Not of the nature of necessary truth; true only under existing conditions. contingent matter (Logic): the subject matter of a proposition which is not necessarily or universally true.
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1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. f. 5 Discovering the validitie of everie reason, bee it necessary, whereof cometh science, or contingent, whence proceedeth opinion.
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 157 A true axiome is Contingent..when it is in such sort true, that it may also at sometime be false.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. i. iii. 28 A Contingent Proposition is that which at one time may be true, at another time false; as Every Crow is Black.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. xx. 329 The truths attested by our senses..are contingent and limited to time and place.
1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) xxii. §1. 385 The region of contingent truth—of truth, in regard to cognition, which might conceivably have been other than it is.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. v. 98 Leibnitz draws a wide distinction between contingent and necessary truth, between truths of fact, and truths of reason.
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