Definition of "givenness" [givenness]

• The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc. (noun)

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• "Drawing from Kierkegaard, he maintains that Christian love “seeks equality with the person to whom its givenness is directed” (115)."
• "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."
• "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)."