Although these are historically contingent they are never arbitrary and in general conserve mathematical concepts, theories and rules of acceptance.

The historically contingent class of masters had thus to create a God to bow down to spiritually and with whom to identify.

Canadian citizens' idea of "the woman refugee" is not inevitable, but historically contingent.

Jonathan Katz and Jeffrey Weeks, among others, have argued persuasively that "the homosexual" is a socially constructed and historically contingent identity.

He generalizes the notion in the following manner, arguing that "there are wider-scale institutional 'orders of interactionality,' historically contingent yet structured.

Reading and writing are seen, for example, as "convention-bound, rule-governed, culturally and historically contingent activities."

Is the evolution of interactions between multispecies networks historically contingent?

Nakayama and Krizek write, "there is no 'true essence' to 'whiteness': there are only historically contingent constructions of that social location."

The equal impact of historically contingent explanations can scarcely be denied.

It is based on this that the anthropology of gifting is located on the contextual and historically contingent relationship between giver and receiver turned reciprocator.