Het verleden is een voorbij heden
Apr. 17th, 2004 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodfaceThe past is a past present.
That was the first thing prof. Eric Defoort taught us in his classes. And like any present, people experiencing the past did not feel the necessity we now see when we study the events. For them, their present was as contingent as ours is to us.
Such a simple truth, a fact that should be taken for granted, and still it opened up a whole new reality.
Contingency, what is possible but not necessary.
Definition: \Con*tin"gen*cy\, n.; pl. {Contingencies}. [Cf. F. contingence.]
1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. ``Point of contingency.'' --J. Gregory.
2. The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on
the contingency of human actions. --South.
3. An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
The remarkable position of the queen rendering her
death a most important contingency. --Hallam.
4. An adjunct or accessory. --Wordsworth.
5. (Law) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
Syn: Casualty; accident; chance.
That was the first thing prof. Eric Defoort taught us in his classes. And like any present, people experiencing the past did not feel the necessity we now see when we study the events. For them, their present was as contingent as ours is to us.
Such a simple truth, a fact that should be taken for granted, and still it opened up a whole new reality.
Contingency, what is possible but not necessary.
Definition: \Con*tin"gen*cy\, n.; pl. {Contingencies}. [Cf. F. contingence.]
1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. ``Point of contingency.'' --J. Gregory.
2. The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on
the contingency of human actions. --South.
3. An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
The remarkable position of the queen rendering her
death a most important contingency. --Hallam.
4. An adjunct or accessory. --Wordsworth.
5. (Law) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
Syn: Casualty; accident; chance.
