What does "givenness" mean?

The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.

What is a synonym for "givenness"?

Common synonyms include: salience.

noun

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Noun

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
the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed wordnet
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."

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

From given + -ness.