If something is contingent on something else, the first thing depends on the second in order to happen or exist. In effect, growth is contingent on improved incomes for the mass of the low-income population. = dependent. depending on something that may happen in the future contingent on/upon (present participle of contingere , from com- ( COM-) + tangere )
A sentence proposition, thought or judgement is contingent if it is true of this actual world, though it is not true in all possible worlds Some philosophers claim that contingent, a posterori, and synthjetic are equivalent, holding that the notion of synthetic explains the other two See necessary
true only under certain conditions or under existing conditions, and therefore not universally true or valid
An expression often seen in offers to purchase It means that some part of the offer is conditioned upon the occurrence of some future event which itself is uncertain
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp