Facticity

Quick meaning: Facticity is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: given, axiom, postulate

[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.

[F]rom the earliest times down to the middle of the last century the writers of the Jewish and Christian Churches, 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 [the Book of Jonah in the Bible].

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.

Word Forms

• facticities

Synonyms for facticity

Depending on context, synonyms include factuality, dasein, thrownness, given, axiom, postulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include facthood, factness, factuality, factiveness, factitude, factivity.

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