Calbert Graham (Stephen McKinley Henderson) in “From Russian Hill with Love,” an episode of the Netflix series A Man on the Inside (2024):
“Every great thing in your life, when you look back on it, feels like a miracle.”If you watch, you’ll see that he’s talking about contingency.
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ReplyDeleteAaugh! I’m typing on a phone. Thanks for the correction.
ReplyDeleteit made me wonder if typos could be an example of contigency 😅 since they are neither necessary nor impossible...
DeleteI only knew "contingency plan." Cool. I will keep returning to the definitions in my Oxford ROM until they sink in.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine a philosophy student: "They're not typos, professor, they're examples of contingency." I owe my understanding of contingency to Richard Rorty and the movie Smoke.
ReplyDeletesmoke is on youtube! could you give me a reference or do you mean rorty's work in general? (i never know where to begin with reading him...)
DeleteI’m thinking of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (but my knowledge of Rorty is pretty limited).
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