facticity

  1. Noun.  literally the quality or state of being a fact .
  2. Noun.  Philosophy: considered one's place, body, past, position, and fundamental relationship to the Other. .
  3. Noun.  The collection of "facts" and/or labels which are one half of a dichotomy between transcendence (of consciousness) and a person's facticity.

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