A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here,… — Francisco Franco Copy Share Image
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
“Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency” — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act. — McGeorge Bundy Copy Share Image
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
There is no Brexit contingency for me - it is just see what happens for me. I do think there is a… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the… — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said,… — Venkatesh Narayanamurti Copy Share Image
“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost… — Russell Powell Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design… — Paul Rabinow Copy Share Image
“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we… — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures… — Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is… — Shawn Michelle Smith Copy Share Image
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