Sachverhaltn.
/ˈzaxfɛrhalt/ Philosophy.
Esp. with reference to the philosophy of Wittgenstein and phenomenology, a state of affairs, an objective fact.
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state of affairs1922
protophenomenon1932
family resemblance1953
1922 B. Russell in C. K. Ogden tr. L. Wittgenstein Tractatus 9 Facts which are not compounded of other facts are what Mr Wittgenstein calls Sachverhalte.
1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas 461 The ‘substantive’ quality attaches to the ‘Substrat’ underlying the ‘Sachverhalt’, as well as to the ‘Sachverhalt’ itself.
1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. i. 26 The unit of speech is the sentence and hence the ‘thing’ signified by every such unit is always of a complex kind—a state of things, as we might say, or a Sachverhalt, if we prefer to use the convenient German equivalent.
1950 Mind 59 266 That new type of object called the Sachverhalt or State of Affairs (the Meinongian ‘Objective’).
1972 J. N. Findlay Meinong's Emotional Presentation p. xv We become aware of what Husserl called variously states of affairs (Sachverhalte) or propositions.
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