concept: CONTINGENCY

concept-key: https://vernacular.cloud/0.0.1/iv24iMhdxXDaYA524OC9kIG4/

Definition

The arrow of time; actualization of outcome from multiple (uncountable infinite) preconditions and constrained possible outcomes.

!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^46fdb3

The important distinction is between "cause" at the token level versus type level. We define "cause" to mean abstract, generalized patterns, and "contingent" to mean concrete particular actualizations.

The puzzlement over causality is a puzzle over the antinomy of Absolute Necessity

!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^723670

Broader

• Vernacular Cloud
• magisterium

Narrower

• compatibility-incompatibility-consequence
• compatibility
• incompatibility
• consequence
• possible-impossible-necessary
• possible
• impossible
• necessary

Related

• causality
• time asymmetry
• necessary connection
• constant conjunction