Thursday, November 28, 2024

Talking about contingency

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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[The eight-episode series is worth seeking out.]

comments: 7

Anonymous said...

typo in the year of the series michael

Michael Leddy said...

Aaugh! I’m typing on a phone. Thanks for the correction.

Sean Crawford said...

I only knew "contingency plan." Cool. I will keep returning to the definitions in my Oxford ROM until they sink in.

Anonymous said...

it made me wonder if typos could be an example of contigency 😅 since they are neither necessary nor impossible...

Michael Leddy said...

I 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.

Anonymous said...

smoke 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...)

Michael Leddy said...

I’m thinking of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (but my knowledge of Rorty is pretty limited).