Facticity

//fækˈtɪsɪti//

Synonyms for "facticity" (7 found)

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Noun(2 words)

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Noun(2 words)

Related words (3)

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Translations

15 translations across 10 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • وَاقِعِيَّة noun (quality or state of being a fact)

Estonian

2 entries
  • faktilisus noun (quality or state of being a fact)
  • faktilisus noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

French

2 entries
  • facticité noun (quality or state of being a fact)
  • facticité noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

German

1 entries
  • Faktizität noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • staðvera noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Italian

2 entries
  • fatticità noun (quality or state of being a fact)
  • fatticità noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Norwegian

1 entries
  • faktisitet noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • facticidade noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Spanish

2 entries
  • facticidad noun (quality or state of being a fact)
  • facticidad noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Swedish

2 entries
  • fakticitet noun (quality or state of being a fact)
  • fakticitet noun (state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over)

Sample sentences

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[F]rom 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 [the Book of Jonah in the Bible].

Source: wiktionary

For 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; or, viewed from another point, is in its own Being absolutely outside of itself, and encircles itself entire.

Source: wiktionary

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."

Source: wiktionary

The dynamics of affective motivation change the immanently given fact (Tatsache) into a processional facticity which originally contains within itself its own temporalizing dynamics. If, as [Friedrich] Nietzsche contended early on, there are no facts but only interpretations of them, facticity is inhabited by an originary plasticity.

Source: wiktionary

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