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n. 1 The quality or state of being a fact 2 The quality or state of being factitious ''(eg in existentialism)''
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In philosophy, facticity (, ) has a multiplicity of meanings from "factuality" and "contingency" to the intractable conditions of human existence.
Usage examples of "facticity".
It is in and through the body that consciousness is present to the world, that it is individualized, that it has facticity, that it has a past.
By a variety of strategies, Sartre repeatedly disregarded the acknowledged subjectivity of the Other as a phenomenological incarnation, and instead, plotted the female role as a species of conniving, disreputable facticity, as the slimy and the hole.
In his section on Being-for-Others, he represents desire as a sort of equitable though failing negotiation of facticity, laid out in a dialectical movement between being-for-others and being-for-itself.
Desire made me cross over to the other side, desire and the facticity of my body.
And happening-to-be-present confronts being-there with the facticity of its there and without disgust sets it down with bare fingers, unprotected by gloves: Ah, the ecstatic-horizontal structure!
Yet I find an absolute responsibility for the fact that my facticity (here the fact of my birth) is directly inapprehensible and even inconceivable, for this fact of my birth never appears as a brute fact but always across a projective reconstruction of my for-itself.