Classifying Contingency In The Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, And Deterministic Contingency

This article makes three claims concerning the concept of contingency. First, we argue that the word contingency is used in far too many ways to be useful. Its many meanings are detrimental to clarity of discussion and thought in history and the social sciences. We show how there are eight distinct...

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