given

Examples

• All

• There were other givens as well.

  Fiction book (2002)

• We should start our analysis by identifying the givens that underlie our assumptions.

• You need to think about how to make it work with what the givens are.

  Life Like (2019)

• We have the following givens.

  Starman (1984)

• But those are the givens in the equation.

  The Mercy (2018)

• Given the givens, it wasn't a good career move to turn down a promotion.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Most commonly, these approaches take institutions as givens and then attempt to understand optimal behavior under stable constraints.

  Academic text (1998)

• Individuals at this end of the continuum believe there are limits beyond which one cannot go, and there are certain givens that cannot be changed and must, therefore, be accepted.

  Academic text (2004)

• Social transformation depends on inner sight, visionary dreaming, rather than on the givens of the external world (74-75).

  Academic text (2017)

• The group's shared givens allowed them to build a strong foundation for their argument.

Synonyms

A

assumption

vsgiven

513 3.5

A belief people accept as true without proof

is treated as a situational fact to start reasoning, not an unproven belief

P

presupposition

vsgiven

5 7.7

A belief people accept as true before they discuss something

is accepted as the starting fact in the situation, not a prior unstated premise

Antonyms

U

uncertainty

296 4.0

Not being sure about what will happen or what to do

Compounds

G

given name

13 2.0

The name a person has before their family name

Surface Forms

Etymology