| 释义 |
givenness|ˈgɪv(ə)nnɪs|
[f. given (sense 3) + -ness.]
The fact of being given or posited.
a1866J. Grote Treatise (1876) 390 But in us reflective creatures, being and thinking, fact (or givenness) and self-formation (or self-improvement)..are mingled together in a complicated doubleness. 1895B. Bosanquet Presid. Addr. in Proc. Aristot. Soc. (1896) III. ii. 10 Little more inference lies from the given-ness of Time in the Absolute, to the Absolute being in Time, than from the given-ness of colour in the Absolute to the Absolute having a colour. |