facˈticity
[f. fact n. + -icity.]
The quality or condition of being a fact; factuality.
| 1945 W. Ebenstein Pure Theory of Law iii. 114 What is the relation between..the law's normativity..and its ‘facticity’, that is, the efficacy of the idea of the law? 1956 Scott. Jrnl. Theol. IX. 310 [Man's] fall is..from a knowledge of himself as a child, not of chance and facticity, but of God; all which is to say, his fall is into sin which is a term not in the existentialist vocabulary. 1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown iv. xi. 183 Suddenly in the excitement of the battle the soldier loses his self, his ‘facticity’, his consciousness of himself as a human being, and becomes an anonymous machine. 1970 J. Donceel tr. Rahner's Trinity iii. 85 It accepts the incarnation and the descent of the Spirit as two facticities connected by a rather extrinsic bond. Ibid., Such mere facticity makes the incarnation smack of mythology. |