givenness

English

Etymology

From given +‎ -ness.

Noun

givenness (countable and uncountable, plural givennesses)

1. The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 803:

     Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation.