givenness

The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.

Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation.

The quality of being given; existence.

The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness.