givenness
givenness noun: the fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
Noun
givenness (countable and uncountable, plural givennesses)
- 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, page 803
- 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, Anthony J. Steinbock, Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl, page 83
Forms of givenness
| plural | givennesses |
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Origin of givenness
From given + -ness.
Questions about givenness
- What does givenness mean?
- Givenness means the fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
- What part of speech is givenness?
- Givenness is a noun.
- What is the plural of givenness?
- The plural of givenness is givennesses.
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