0 something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further arrangements necessary:
1 something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further plans and arrangements necessary:
2 something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further arrangements necessary:
3 an arrangement for dealing with something that might possibly happen or cause problems in the future:
4 if you work for someone on a contingency basis, you agree that you will only be paid if you achieve a particular aim, for example, getting a successful result in a court of law:
It is the causing of needless suffering that is wrong; the mere contingency of a creature's existence is irrelevant.
For our claim is not that knowledge and exercise of sensorimotor contingencies can solve the same feat.
On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality and on a new mode of determining life contingencies.
And to be a visual perceiver is, thus, to be capable of exercising mastery of vision-related rules of sensorimotor contingency.
Many of the laws underlying sensorimotor contingencies could be said to be related both to the visual apparatus and to the nature of objects.
There are also hints of contingency among several of the more assertively egalitarian groups.
If hooks are less than completely determinate, then every aspect of the popular record must be subject to contingency.
Below, the policy relevance of all four contingencies will be demonstrated.