facticity

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The quality or state of being a fact.

   “[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].”

2. isim 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.

   “[Martin] Heidegger replaces spirit—the principle of subjectivity—with the principle of facticity, which binds the activity of philosophizing to factical life, that is to say, to Dasein.”

3. isim A fact that is not changeable or that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.

   “Near-synonyms: given, axiom, postulate”