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facticity

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(uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact.
Synonyms: factuality, factualness

(uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the 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.
Synonyms: dasein, thrownness

(countable) A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
Synonym: given

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Specific procedures of universe-maintenance become necessary when the symbolic universe has become a problem. As long as this is not the case, the symbolic universe is self-maintaining, that is, self-legitimating by the sheer facticity of its objective existence in the society in question. Peter L. Berger

A denial of one's own concrete past constitutes an inauthentic lifestyle, and the same goes for all other kinds of facticity (having a human body — e.g. one that doesn't allow a person to run faster than the speed of sound —identity, values, etc.). Source: Internet

In other words, the origin of one's projection must still be one's facticity, though in the mode of not being it (essentially). Source: Internet

Of course, as a condition of freedom is facticity, this includes one's facticity, but not to the degree that this facticity can in any way determine one's choices (in the sense that one could then blame one's background for making the choice one made). Source: Internet

The latter cannot be seen or touched, but they are external and coercive, and as such, they become real, gain "facticity". Source: Internet

This can be more easily understood when considering facticity in relation to the temporal dimension of our past: one's past is what one is, in the sense that it co-constitutes oneself. Source: Internet

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