Givenness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Givenness is a noun meaning The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
Meaning
The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
More Meanings
- The quality of being given; existence.
Example Sentences
Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation.
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.
Word Forms
- givennesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include givingness, ungivenness, pregivenness, havingness, beingness, posedness.
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