facticityn.

1839 C. C. Bury Diary Illustr. Times George IV III. 15 My matter-of-facticity may here for once be agreeable.]

1869 A. E. Kroeger tr. J. G. Fichte New Expos. Sci. of Knowl. i. 51 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.

1883 tr. J. G. Fichte in Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 17 278 In immediate facticity this is manifested by the circumstance that we are all brought into life without knowing about it, not finding ourselves till we are in the middle of it.

1928 Sci. Monthly Dec. 530/1 Modality is commonly regarded as having three forms: hypothesis, facticity and necessity.

1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 1 350 In virtue of its [sc. Dasein's] ‘facticity’,..it is cast into the world and is there in its ‘thrownness’.

1956 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 9 310 [Man's] fall is..from a knowledge of himself as a child, not of chance and facticity, but of God; all which is to say, his fall is into sin which is a term not in the existentialist vocabulary.

1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown iv. xi. 183 Suddenly in the excitement of the battle the soldier loses his self, his ‘facticity’, his consciousness of himself as a human being, and becomes an anonymous machine.

1967 P. L. Berger Sacred Canopy i. 17 Internalization..implies that the objective facticity of the social world becomes a subjective facticity as well.

1972 R. C. Solomon From Rationalism to Existentialism ii. vii. 275/2 An initial characterization of bad faith of the conscious refusal..of treating one's transcendence as facticity, of treating one's own choices as if they were facts imposed on one.

1998 K. Allan Meaning of Culture ii. 38 When culture is perceived as being factual, that sense of facticity is a social product.

2006 Sci. Fiction Stud. 33 452 There is not much distance anymore between the facticity of realism and the subjunctivity of science fiction.

1964 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 32 118 Affirmation of secular humanism involves a dilution of the facticities of each man's specific human situation.

1970 J. Donceel tr. K. Rahner Trinity iii. 85 It accepts the incarnation and the descent of the Spirit as two facticities connected by a rather extrinsic bond.

1990 B. Wilson Social Dimensions Sectarianism (1992) i. 14 The bald questionnaire, without a previous apprehension of..the assumed facticities of life for sectarians, would produce only a travesty of reality.

2012 S. Kruks Simone de Beauvoir & Politics of Ambiguity i. 34 The facticities of human existence..include physical ‘givens’ such as our biological sex characteristics or our skin pigmentation.