Pregiven

Quick meaning: Pregiven is an adjective meaning (philosophy, ontology) Existing in the world, as opposed to arising from human apprehension.

Meaning

(philosophy, ontology) Existing in the world, as opposed to arising from human apprehension.

More Meanings

1. Naturally occurring, as opposed to being socially constructed.
2. Provided beforehand; present at the start.
3. (philosophy, ontology) That which is actual, as opposed to our concepts or apprehension of the world.

Example Sentences

For Schmitt, such a conception is contradictory, since he believes that in democracy such a will has to be pregiven at the outset and cannot be the product of discussion.

We therefore arrive at the realization that Aristotle conceived of the truth of a-synthetic wholes as pregiven in the same sense; they, as such, are therefore always actual.

The ontological and epistemological commitments are basically twofold: We assume that the world is pregiven, that its features can be specified prior to any cognitive activity.

For example, when a red spot on a sheet of paper strongly stimulates me, the whiteness of the paper as well as the red spot are pregiven and both of them undergo the structurization of “figure-ground.”

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