Contingency Scientific Method

A scientific approach that treats results as contingent on specific historical, environmental, and contextual conditions that might not hold elsewhere or elsewhen. It rejects the assumption that findings should replicate everywhere forever, instead asking: under what conditions does this hold? What had to be true for this result to appear? Contingency Method is essential for historical sciences like evolutionary biology or cosmology, where you can't rerun the tape and see if things turn out the same way. It produces knowledge that comes with an expiration date and a location stamp—not because it's bad science, but because reality itself is contingent.

"We found this amazing result in 2020, tried to replicate in 2021, and failed completely. Contingency Scientific Method says: maybe the finding was contingent on pandemic conditions that no longer exist. Science isn't broken—reality just changed."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

Conflingeld

/kənˈfliNG əld/

adj

Perplexed and bewildered, while simultaneously experiencing brain death

The excessive number of spreadsheets she was forced to peruse to find unimportant information left her thoroughly conflingeld.

by SoSlightlyScarlet March 12, 2025

William Cornfangle

The act of placing a jar of one's own semen on the top shelf of a cabinet so that children think it is mayonaisse, then right when it falls down the cabinet onto the childs head, getting an old woman to vomit on the child's armpit.

I gave my kid a William Cornfangle last night for spilling orange juice.

by mikey steel July 6, 2008

Saulitary confinement

What you'd likely find yourself in if you go hot-headedly throwing spears at your fellow leaders.

I never could understand why dat temperish javelin-chucking dude in da Bible wasn't thrown into Saulitary confinement for his treasonous murder-attempts... didn't they have a proper concept of justice back then????

by QuacksO February 12, 2020

Post-Mortem, Contingent Nihilist

Weak, Alex. Weak sauce. Pretty soon you're going to be doing your videos in spastically-colored suits and accusing your audience of not knowing what they mean when they say words.

Hym "Wouldn't I be a Post-Mortem, Contingent Nihilist? I mean, I've been pretty explicit. And I've infected Jordan Peterson with it. Now he's haunted by the idea that no matter what he does, immediately after his death his kids will have terrible misfortune. At the moment of his death he can assume that the rest of time will occur. His loved ones effectively die with him. And now, in his insane desperation, he's trying to collude with the government to make earth hell for 'the wrong type of person' to poison the well with his own rotting corpse."

by Hym Iam June 9, 2024