Meaning of Givenness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
   countable, uncountable
2. The quality of being given; existence.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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