Givenness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc. countable, uncountable

    "Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation."

  2. 2
    the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of being given; existence. countable, uncountable

    "The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness."

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"Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation."

Etymology

From given + -ness.

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