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givenness

noun

Etymology

From given + -ness.

  1. derived from *gebaną✻
  2. derived from gefa
  3. derived from giefan
  4. inherited from given
  5. suffixed as given — “give + n”
  6. suffixed as givenness — “given + ness”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. The quality of being given

    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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for givenness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA