givenness

plural givennesses

1. countableuncountableThe 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

2. countableuncountableThe 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