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  • noun The quality or condition of being a fact.

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  • noun literally the quality or state of being a fact
  • noun Philosophy: considered one's place, body, past, position, and fundamental relationship to the Other.
  • noun The collection of "facts" and/or labels which are one half of a dichotomy between transcendence (of consciousness) and a person's facticity.

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Examples

  • Otlet believed in the possibility of empirical truth, or what he called "facticity" - a property that emerged over time, through the ongoing collaboration between readers and writers.

    Comments at Boxes and Arrows 2010

  • The rest of it, the facticity, which is, obviously, under all kinds of contestation, she let that go.

    'Strange Culture' May Grow on Film Fans 2007

  • Some of them: "facticity", sure, and teachin' the SF nerds a lesson, yup, but formally, no, as there is no particular reason for this particular narrator to sit down and review his life in the manner he actually did.

    "Bone Women" by Eliot Fintushel 2005

  • Which is to say, the meme - but, also, its attachments, that which makes it 'take hold', as Althusser defined 'facticity'.

    archive : s0metim3s s0metim3s 2008

  • Which is to say, the meme - but, also, its attachments, that which makes it 'take hold', as Althusser defined 'facticity'.

    archive : s0metim3s 2008

  • And if so, to what extent is it authentic in capital "E" Existential terms, insofar as it is a matter of facticity, rather than volition?

    Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

  • And if so, to what extent is it authentic in capital "E" Existential terms, insofar as it is a matter of facticity, rather than volition?

    Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

  • He would have regarded it as terrible pose to place the book somewhere between the pataphysics of Alfred Jarry (the scientist of imaginary solutions) and the metaphysics of Martin Heidegger (the analyst of the hermeneutics of facticity).

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • In Remainder cricket is pure facticity, which keeps coming at you, carrying death, leaving its mark.

    Zadie Smith, Mark Thwaite, Negativity and Whining for the New 2008

  • He would have regarded it as terrible pose to place the book somewhere between the pataphysics of Alfred Jarry (the scientist of imaginary solutions) and the metaphysics of Martin Heidegger (the analyst of the hermeneutics of facticity).

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • Facticity means a thing can only take on the feature of being a fact, of being real, of being truth or a part of reality when it has been pinpointed to the linear timeline and assigned a date.

    Waiting/Weighting/Wading Time: Juneteenth, Watch Night, + Emancipation Day 2023

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  • Desire made me cross over to the other side, desire and the facticity of my body.

    —Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 479

    August 17, 2008