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** Finnish: sopimussakko

** Finnish: sopimussakko

* Japanese: 成功報酬 (seikō-hōshū) [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contingency]

* Japanese: 成功報酬 (seikō-hōshū) [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contingency]

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In [[philosophy]] and [[logic]], '''contingency''' is the [[status]] of [[facts]] that are not logically necessarily true or false. Contingency is opposed to [[necessity]]: a contingent [[act]] is an act which could have not been, an act which is not necessary (could not have not been). Contingency differs from [[possibility]], in a [[formal]] sense, as the latter includes statements which are necessarily true as well as not necessarily false, while a statement can not be said to be contingent if it is true necessarily.

In [[philosophy]] and [[logic]], '''contingency''' is the [[status]] of [[facts]] that are not logically necessarily true or false. Contingency is opposed to [[necessity]]: a contingent [[act]] is an act which could have not been, an act which is not necessary (could not have not been). Contingency differs from [[possibility]], in a [[formal]] sense, as the latter includes statements which are necessarily true as well as not necessarily false, while a statement can not be said to be contingent if it is true necessarily.

==Usage==

==Usage==

In colloquial [[English]], a contingency is something that can happen, but that generally is not anticipated. [[Planning]] for contingencies often requires a more [[imaginative]] approach, because contingencies are inherently not obvious. Large organizations, such as [[governments]], are often [[criticized]] for not planning for contingencies because the construction of plans to deal with contingencies often involves [[thinking]] outside the box. Beforehand, contingencies are hard to [[predict]]; this failure to appreciate contingencies ahead of time has led to the formulation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Law Murphy's law]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency]

In colloquial [[English]], a contingency is something that can happen, but that generally is not anticipated. [[Planning]] for contingencies often requires a more [[imaginative]] approach, because contingencies are inherently not obvious. Large organizations, such as [[governments]], are often [[criticized]] for not planning for contingencies because the construction of plans to deal with contingencies often involves [[thinking]] outside the box. Beforehand, contingencies are hard to [[predict]]; this failure to appreciate contingencies ahead of time has led to the formulation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_Law Murphy's law]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency]

==Quote==

==Quote==

All that night [[Mother Mary|Mary]] was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in [[evidence]], and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of [[women]] fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a [[male]] [[child]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible '''contingency''', and laid in a near-by manger.[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper122.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper122.html&line=123#mfs]

All that night [[Mother Mary|Mary]] was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in [[evidence]], and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of [[women]] fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a [[male]] [[child]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible '''contingency''', and laid in a near-by manger.[https://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=https://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper122.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper122.html&line=123#mfs]

[[Category: Philosophy]]

[[Category: Philosophy]]