givenness

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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.”