facticity

facticity englanniksi

1. The quality or state of being a fact.

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2. (quote-journal)|month=April|year=1871|volume=XVII|page=312|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Fk4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA312|oclc=1055011407|passage=From 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 (w) in the Bible.

3. In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular of affairs which one has no control over.

4. (quote-journal)

5. (quote-book)’s “(w)”|edition=Midway Reprint|location=Chicago, Ill.; London|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1985|section=part II (Being-for-itself), section II (The Facticity of the For-itself)|page=100|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJV_tJPUJBUC&pg=PA100|isbn=978-0-226-09699-5|passage=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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7. A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.