givenness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
givenness (countable and uncountable, plural givennesses)
- 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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 803: