givenness
The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
Noun
- The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
- Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation. - 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010,...
- The quality of being given; existence.
- 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. - 1995,...
Origin
From given + -ness.