Supreme can be attributedcontingence only under new definition, vi.
And on the other hand, exactly because it makes both of them contingent, and because the contingent disappears with necessity, it will suppress this contingence in both, and will thus give form to matter and reality to form.
Contingence and Determinism I do not intend to treat here the question of the contingence of the laws of nature, which is evidently insoluble, and on which so much has already been written.
We have made this transformation freely, and as the caprice which has determined us to make it is something eminently contingent, we have communicated this contingence to the law itself.
If we reflect on these considerations, the problem of determinism and of contingence will appear to us in a new light.
But I do not accede to the definition: Contingence I repeat again, is not opposed to cause but to necessity.
The contingence of quality necessitates the contingence of substance; otherwise the eternity of substance would necessitate the eternity of quality.
The contingence of quality is evident, and the contingence of substance follows from the fact that no substance could exist apart from qualities.
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