Definitions
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- noun the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed.
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- noun The fact of being
given orposited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
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- noun the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
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Examples
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Drawing from Kierkegaard, he maintains that Christian love “seeks equality with the person to whom its givenness is directed” (115).
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It is somewhat more plausible to hold that beliefs about physical objects, even if not arrived at via inference, must still be inferentially justified, but neither the rationale for such a claim nor its relation to the idea of givenness or immediacy is clear at this point.
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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To this end, Rorty combines a reading of Quine's attack on a version of the structure-content distinction in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1952), with a reading of Sellars 'attack on the idea of givenness in "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" (1956/1997).
Richard Rorty Ramberg, Bjørn 2007
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The Christian denial of sacred 'givenness' to any political order should make us as wary of any such universal sovereignty as of any sacred claims for this or that national polity.
David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty' 2005
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The Christian denial of sacred 'givenness' to any political order should make us as wary of any such universal sovereignty as of any sacred claims for this or that national polity.
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Such an approach would tacitly imply the givenness of those classes in a sense in which this is possible only in an indestructible society.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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With films like his, and others, I begin to understand the God-givenness of the form, how it works, why it works. . .
Archive 2009-03-15 2009
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Every object is prior to its apprehension, i.e., objects are pre-given [vorgegeben] to the mind, and this pre-givenness is due do the (ontological) status of outside-being.
Salvation Santa 2009
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The situation is presented without any nuance, save for the givenness of white privilege.
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Such an approach would tacitly imply the givenness of those classes in a sense in which this is possible only in an indestructible society.
Polanyi on the market Daniel Little 2009
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