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Noun [English]

IPA: /fækˈtɪsɪti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /fækˈtɪsɪti/ [General-American], [-ɾi] [General-American] Audio: En-uk-facticity.oga [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: facticities [plural]
Etymology: From fact + -icity, possibly modelled on German Faktizität which first appeared in the writings of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fact|icity}} fact + -icity, {{der|en|de|Faktizität}} German Faktizität Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} facticity (usually uncountable, plural facticities)
  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: factuality, factualness Translations (quality or state of being a fact): وَاقِعِيَّة (wāqiʕiyya) (Arabic), faktilisus (Estonian), facticité [feminine] (French), fatticità [feminine] (Italian), facticidad [feminine] (Spanish), fakticitet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-facticity-en-noun-qfAFqqHw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -icity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 40 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -icity: 58 34 8 Disambiguation of 'quality or state of being a fact': 80 14 6
  2. (uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over. Tags: specifically, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Philosophy Synonyms: dasein, thrownness Translations (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over): faktilisus (Estonian), facticité [feminine] (French), Faktizität [feminine] (German), staðvera (Icelandic), fatticità [feminine] (Italian), faktisitet (Norwegian), facticidade [feminine] (Portuguese), facticidad [feminine] (Spanish), fakticitet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-facticity-en-noun-INk3n09a Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over': 20 77 3
  3. (countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. Tags: countable, usually Synonyms: given
    Sense id: en-facticity-en-noun-Vvx5c6rG
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          "text": "The ownmost possibility of be-ing itself which Dasein (facticity) is, and indeed without this possibility being \"there\" for it, may be designated as existence. It is with respect to this authentic be-ing itself that facticity is placed into our forehaving when initially engaging it and bringing it into play in our hermeneutical questioning.",
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          "ref": "2003, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, “Hegel’s Challenge to the Early Heidegger”, in Dan Zahavi, Sara Heinämaa, Hans Ruin, editors, Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries (Contributions to Phenomenology; 49), Dordrecht, Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 232",
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          "ref": "1988, David Detmer, “Freedom”, in Freedom as a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre, Chicago, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, section 1.3.1.1.1 (Facticity), pages 40–41",
          "text": "It is important for those to ascribe to [Jean-Paul] Sartre a crude theory of \"absolute freedom\" to notice that he does acknowledge the existence of facticities which I did not originate and which I cannot change (e.g., the date of my birth). [...] [W]hile I can change some of my facticities (e.g., I can move to another city, I can get glasses, I can even, perhaps, get a sex-change operation), it is nonetheless true that these acts are all possible for me only insofar as I now, in fact, live in Chicago, have certain abilities and disabilities of eyesight, and am male. Freedom, then, always presupposes facticity, and a free act cannot occur, nor can the idea of a free act even be rendered intelligible, except against a background of facticity.",
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          "ref": "1988, Andrew J. Weigert, “To Be or Not: Self and Authenticity, Identity, and Ambivalence”, in Daniel K. Lapsley, F. Clark Power, editors, Self, Ego, and Identity: Integrative Approaches, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 266",
          "text": "[O]nce institutionalized, patterns of responses and the symbolic representations take on the qualities of objective facts, that is, \"facticities\" that appear to be naturally occurring objects but which in fact are precarious dramatic effects of human interaction. As facticities, these meanings can be internalized by members of the community and shape their experience and self-interpretation.",
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          "ref": "1997, Jon Mills, “The Ontology of Prejudice”, in The Ontology of Prejudice (Value Inquiry Book Series; 58), Amsterdam, Atlanta, Ga.: Editions Rodopi, section 7 (Is Racism Predisposed?), page 39",
          "text": "Because we are abandoned a priori to preestablished factors that constitute our social, psychological, and biogenetic ontogeny, we have no control over our racial facticities. Simply put, we have no choice about our race.",
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          "text": "For as sure as the absolute knowledge (in the infinite facticity—actual existence—of each single knowledge) is only in the absolute form of the For-itself, so sure each knowledge goes also beyond itself; or, viewed from another point, is in its own Being absolutely outside of itself, and encircles itself entire.",
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          "text": "In particular, we cannot choose the circumstances of our birth and our entire bodily condition. These \"facticities\" appear to us as having no foundation or justification. Why is one person born blind and another born with perfect vision? Facticities are thus contingent, they present themselves as simply \"there.\"",
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          "ref": "1999, Martin Heidegger, “Hermeneutics”, in John van Buren, transl., Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Studies in Continental Thought), Bloomington, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, § 3 (Hermeneutics as the Self-interpretation of Facticity), page 12",
          "text": "The ownmost possibility of be-ing itself which Dasein (facticity) is, and indeed without this possibility being \"there\" for it, may be designated as existence. It is with respect to this authentic be-ing itself that facticity is placed into our forehaving when initially engaging it and bringing it into play in our hermeneutical questioning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, “Hegel’s Challenge to the Early Heidegger”, in Dan Zahavi, Sara Heinämaa, Hans Ruin, editors, Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries (Contributions to Phenomenology; 49), Dordrecht, Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 232",
          "text": "[Martin] Heidegger replaces spirit—the principle of subjectivity—with the principle of facticity, which binds the activity of philosophizing to factical life, that is to say, to Dasein.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
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          "existentialism"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ],
        [
          "knowable",
          "knowable"
        ],
        [
          "reason",
          "reason#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "existence",
          "existence"
        ],
        [
          "state of affairs",
          "state of affairs"
        ],
        [
          "control",
          "control#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dasein"
        },
        {
          "word": "thrownness"
        }
      ],
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        "specifically",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, David Detmer, “Freedom”, in Freedom as a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre, Chicago, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, section 1.3.1.1.1 (Facticity), pages 40–41",
          "text": "It is important for those to ascribe to [Jean-Paul] Sartre a crude theory of \"absolute freedom\" to notice that he does acknowledge the existence of facticities which I did not originate and which I cannot change (e.g., the date of my birth). [...] [W]hile I can change some of my facticities (e.g., I can move to another city, I can get glasses, I can even, perhaps, get a sex-change operation), it is nonetheless true that these acts are all possible for me only insofar as I now, in fact, live in Chicago, have certain abilities and disabilities of eyesight, and am male. Freedom, then, always presupposes facticity, and a free act cannot occur, nor can the idea of a free act even be rendered intelligible, except against a background of facticity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Andrew J. Weigert, “To Be or Not: Self and Authenticity, Identity, and Ambivalence”, in Daniel K. Lapsley, F. Clark Power, editors, Self, Ego, and Identity: Integrative Approaches, New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, page 266",
          "text": "[O]nce institutionalized, patterns of responses and the symbolic representations take on the qualities of objective facts, that is, \"facticities\" that appear to be naturally occurring objects but which in fact are precarious dramatic effects of human interaction. As facticities, these meanings can be internalized by members of the community and shape their experience and self-interpretation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Jon Mills, “The Ontology of Prejudice”, in The Ontology of Prejudice (Value Inquiry Book Series; 58), Amsterdam, Atlanta, Ga.: Editions Rodopi, section 7 (Is Racism Predisposed?), page 39",
          "text": "Because we are abandoned a priori to preestablished factors that constitute our social, psychological, and biogenetic ontogeny, we have no control over our racial facticities. Simply put, we have no choice about our race.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation."
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        ],
        [
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          "evaluation"
        ]
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        "(countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "given"
        }
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        "usually"
      ]
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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        "General-American"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wāqiʕiyya",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "word": "وَاقِعِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "word": "faktilisus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facticité"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fatticità"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facticidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality or state of being a fact",
      "word": "fakticitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "word": "faktilisus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facticité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Faktizität"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "word": "staðvera"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fatticità"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "word": "faktisitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facticidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "facticidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over",
      "word": "fakticitet"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Johann Gottlieb Fichte"
  ],
  "word": "facticity"
}

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