Contingency (disambiguation)

Contingency (from Latin contingere " ( touching ), ( time unforeseen) coincide ") stands for:

Contingency (philosophy), the non- necessity of potential events as opposed to metaphysical fateful necessity
Contingency (sociology), general openness of human life experiences
Contingency (statistics), statistical correlation nominally scaled features
Contingency ( Evolution) dependence of the long-term development of life on earth by chance events
Contingency (psychology ), common occurrence of two features or the connectedness of two events
Contingency ( logic) statements form that can be both true and false
Contingency ( History), the compatibility of causality and openness of history