contingency

Contingency (from Latin contingere "touch, grasp, be close" as well as Latin contingit "it happens, stumbles" and Latin contingentia "possibility, chance") stands for:

• Contingency (philosophy) , the non-necessity of everything that exists
• Contingency (logic), statement form that can be both true and false, see satisfiability
• Contingency (sociology) , fundamental openness of human life experiences
• Contingency (statistics) , statistical relationship between nominally scaled characteristics
• Contingency theory (evolution) , dependence of the long-term development of life on earth on chance events
• Contingency (psychology), finely tuned emotional communication between two people, see rapport (psychology)
• Contingency (learning theory), immediate and regular consequence on behavior, see operant conditioning
• Contiguity theory - simultaneity of movement and accidental stimulus as a sufficient and necessary condition for learning
• Contingency (history science) , the compatibility of causality and openness of history

See also:

• Contingency Theory - further BKL
• Contiguity - further BKL
• Contingency coefficient C (after Karl Pearson), statistical measure of relationship
• Contingency management , form of operant conditioning
• Contingency table

Wiktionary: Contingency  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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