contingence

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“Europe and other countries, Australia, we usually get large contingence from, right now most of them are saying travel is not possible,” said Pelton.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2021

All the same, liberty supposes a certain contingence.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

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.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William