Definition of Facticity 1. Noun. literally the quality or state of being a fact ¹





2. Noun. Philosophy: considered one's place, body, past, position, and fundamental relationship to the Other. ¹

3. Noun. The collection of "facts" and/or labels which are one half of a dichotomy between transcendence (of consciousness) and a person's facticity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Facticity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facticity

Literary usage of Facticity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Praxis of Alain Badiou by Paul Ashton, A J Bartlett, Justin Clemens (2006)

"Historically, the term 'facticity' was first brought into philosophical currency through ... The facticity of the for-itself (roughly: the subject) is the ..."



2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1883)

"Whenever the problem is no longer merely to exchange facts for facts, but to rise beyond all facticity in its absolute form to its absolute ground by pure ..."



3. New Exposition of the Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Immanuel Kant, Adolph Ernst Kroeger (1869)

"facticity, and at the same time with the annihilation of that facticity, is on that very account one and the same with thinking ; and it is this in ..."



4. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)

"... which had universal cosmological import, rather than through particular historical facticity. The chronicles are imaginary constructions related to, ..."



5. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Franklin and Marshall College (1871)

"... with the exception of the Deists in England and of some isolated views, unanimously held fast the facticity of the events recorded in this book. ..."





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