Pregivenness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pregivenness is a noun meaning The quality or state of being pregiven.
Meaning
The quality or state of being pregiven.
Example Sentences
It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
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.
Rather, the genuinely historical lies in the appearing of the phenomenalizing cogitatio, an appearing that does not refer back to pregivennesses; that is, the genuinely historical lies in the manifestation of noetic-noematic consciousness.
Word Forms
- pregivennesses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pregnability, pregnantness, gravidness, regnancy, progenitiveness, unbornness.
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