The givenness of Mormon truth seemed less and less given to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Why do smart Mormons like post-modernism?] Reference

This first-person givenness entails an implicit experiential self-reference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

This term is best translated as "reflexive awareness" to indicate a self-givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilhelm Dilthey] Reference

In All Men Are Mortal the givenness of finitude and death concerns our relationship to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir] Reference

It points to what doesn't change, the givenness of a presence in the midst, an agent who invites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History] Reference

The raw givenness of being alive is unimaginably beyond ANY "thinking about point of view" (science included).    From Wordnik.com.  [Is social/psychological politics killing our natural human species?] Reference

With films like his, and others, I begin to understand the God-givenness of the form, how it works, why it works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-15] Reference

Such an approach would tacitly imply the givenness of those classes in a sense in which this is possible only in an indestructible society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polanyi on the market] Reference

This connection between the notions of neutrality and givenness is a pervasive but inessential ingredient at the core of most neutral monist doctrines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neutral Monism] Reference

Certainly, we can (and do) get theoretical about the givenness of being alive, but that "about which" we're being theoretical is never ITSELF theoretical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do we think about what we think about before we think about it?] Reference

For the phenomenologists, this immediate and first-personal givenness of experiential phenomena must be accounted for in terms of a pre-reflective self-consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

Yet, at the same time, as I live through these differences, there is something experiential that is, in some sense, the same, namely, their distinct first-personal givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

Surprise, surprise, the givenness of immediacy has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with all that talking to yourself inside your head which is the essence of what you call the human condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [the bottlE] Reference

As such, they refer to a time anterior to givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

It is for this reason that realism requires us to think being without givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

He is placed as a writer, and I find his human givenness to his place quite refreshing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ochlophobist] Reference

The situation is presented without any nuance, save for the givenness of white privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

How we make use of what we are given is something else, but givenness is the starting point.    From Wordnik.com.  [TPMCafe] Reference

The problem with the argument from the un-witnessed is that it conflates givenness with being perceptually present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

We are thus back to the question of the birth of givenness, or the emergence of givenness from a time of non-givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

That is, a statement pertaining to spatial distance refers to an event where givenness is already operative in the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

Or, in other words, it thinks givenness in logical positivist terms, treating it as a sense-datum that is present to consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

But if that the case, then we cannot avoid the question of how it is possible to think a being without givenness or a realist position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

But the ancestral refers not to an absence in givenness like the absent profiles of my coffee cup, but rather to the absence of givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

Yet this is exactly what Meillassoux does in his argument from ancestrality, when he argues that givenness emerged at a particular point in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larval Subjects .] Reference

Everyone at one time or another experiences the loss that occurs when stories become tools for a purpose that is foreign to their own creational givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catapult Magazine] Reference

Hawking physics) or the raw material, givenness we so greedily keep trying to capture in thought's butterfly nets?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intelligence is surrender to the ordinary] Reference

Because we live in a mental realm that has so disconnected the reality of being alive from the givenness of what an ancient Zen Master called "Absolute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The social crucifixion of the human species.] Reference

Their grand givenness of gratitude and joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paideia] Reference

1.1 The idea of immediacy or givenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Perception] Reference

1739), it could be argued that he overlooks something in his analysis, namely the specific self-givenness of his own experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference

"givenness" of perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Is Reading] Reference