ContingencyPhilosophy of HistoryEvolutionary BiologyThe view that outcomes depended on choices and accidents that could have been different.Learn about this termUnit 05: causationPhilosophy of HistoryUnit 09: contingency and convergencePhilosophy of HistoryRelated TermsDeterminismThe view that what happened had to happen; that outcomes wer...CounterfactualA thought experiment exploring what would have happened unde...