Givenness

Word GIVENNESS
Character 9
Hyphenation givenness
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Drawing from Kierkegaard, he maintains that Christian love “seeks equality with the person to whom its givenness is directed” (115). ❋ Unknown (2007)

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). ❋ Ramberg, Bjørn (2007)

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. ❋ BonJour, Laurence (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Such an approach would tacitly imply the givenness of those classes in a sense in which this is possible only in an indestructible society. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The philosophical framework of givenness historically takes on many guises, including not only the idea that empirical knowledge rests on a foundation, but also, crucially, the assumption that the “privacy” of the mental and one's ❋ Rosenberg, Jay (2009)

The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring them into full givenness in consciousness and in this way to grasp them completely. ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)

The situation is presented without any nuance, save for the givenness of white privilege. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With films like his, and others, I begin to understand the God-givenness of the form, how it works, why it works. . . ❋ Unknown (2009)

The raw givenness of being alive is unimaginably beyond ANY "thinking about point of view" (science included). ❋ Unknown (2008)

By his office as celebrant he symbolizes the focusing of the Eucharist in the givenness of the historic gospel and in the continuing life of the Church as rooted in that gospel. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2008)

Whether he would grant a natural givenness to sex as a mode of reproduction common to most forms of life or whether he would see such categorization as one of the features that separate organicist biology from classical natural science ❋ Unknown (2006)

This term is best translated as "reflexive awareness" to indicate a self-givenness. ❋ Makkreel, Rudolf (2008)

Discussions of the sacramental quality of church life, the inescapable givenness of that organic life into which we are drawn by the gospel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It points to what doesn't change, the givenness of a presence in the midst, an agent who invites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And very often the doctrine that emerges is a doctrine about human will and human choice, a doctrine which assumes that human will and human choice can, in certain circumstances, override any sense of the givenness of a human nature, an embodied human nature. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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