Coincidences Without Contingency

Monday, September 6, 2010 - 12:07 in Mathematics & Economics

Coincidences in physics and in a sense infinite coincidences in mathematics are coincidences also because of the contingency around them: It could have been different. There is this type of coincidence that Tommaso was writing about that exemplifies contingency: We meet on the street wearing the same style of red jacked, both having a hole torn by some sort of mishaps. read more

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