Contingency

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This page is about logic. For the type of attorney's fee, see contingent fee.

In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessary. See modal logic.

In colloquial English, a contingency is something that can happen, but that generally is not anticipated. Planning for contingencies is called defensive design. Beforehand, contingencies are hard to predict; failure to predict contingencies has led to the formulation of Murphy's law.

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