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givenness

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n.1.the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed.
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Noun1.givenness - the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
indisputability, indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness - the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt


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First, because sharing requires real division as its condition of possibility--one does not share with someone from whom one is not in a significant sense separate, and to this extent, one should never allow imagery of the unity of the body (or of the loaf) to overwhelm the givenness of the gesture involved, namely, that of breaking bread.
Same-sex sexual acts cannot be defended as in harmony with natural law based on the givenness of homosexual orientation.
Proverbs 8 consistently emphasizes "the givenness of Wisdom," both on the level of quotidian human experience: "beside the way, at the crossroads .
 
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