contingence

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Contingence, also, as opposed to necessity, destroys certainty, and excludes the possibility even of divine prescience.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

But I do not accede to the definition: Contingence I repeat again, is not opposed to cause but to necessity.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip