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facticity
n. factuality, quality of being a fact


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Facticity
Facticity (French: facticité, German: Faktizität) refers to the contingent yet intractable conditions of human existence.The term is first used by Fichte and has a variety of meanings. It can refer to facts and factuality, as in nineteenth-century positivism, but comes to mean that which resists explanation and interpretation in Dilthey and Neo-Kantianism. The Neo-Kantians contrasted facticity with ideality, as does Jürgen Habermas in Between Facts and Norms (Faktizität und Geltung). It is a term that takes on a more specialized meaning in 20th century continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology and existentialism, including Edmund HusserlMartin HeideggerJean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Recent philosophers such as Giorgio AgambenJean-Luc Nancy, and François Raffoul have taken up the notion of facticity in new and interesting ways.
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facticity
objectivity, an illusory objectivity

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