He is forgetting that, on Critical principles, even the categories are meaningless except in their reference to the contingently given.
It is presupposed in the possibility of our contingently given experience.
All judgments, so far as they refer to existence, as distinct from mere possibility, are hypothetical, and serve to define a reality that is only contingently given.
Consciousness of limitation presupposes a consciousness of what is beyond the limit; consciousness of the unconditioned is prior to, and renders possible, our consciousness of the contingently given.
They have the merely hypothetical validity of all propositions that refer to the contingently given.
The dynamical only specify rules whereby we can define the relation in which existences contingently given are connected.
Now, we see in the government of the universe that things are not moved and do not operate uniformly, but some contingently and some of necessity in variously different ways.
From the very fact that nothing resists the divine will, it follows that not only those things happen that God wills to happen, but that they happen necessarily or contingently according to His will.
But a being which exists contingently is a being which has not within itself the adequate reason of its existence; whence it follows that its existence cannot be accounted for but by recourse to some extrinsic principle or principles.
It is to be observed that a primitive being may be conceived to exist either contingently or through the necessity of its own nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contingently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
