a belief in factual characteristics of real objects In phenomenology, by bracketing our facticity,l we transfer our focus from assumed things "out there" to our experience
The collection of "facts" and/or labels which are one half of a dichotomy between transcendence (of consciousness) and a persons facticity
The contingent conditions of an individual human life In the existentialism of Heidegger and Sartre, facticity includes all of the concrete detailstime and place of birth, for example, along with the prospect of deathagainst the background of which human freedom is to be exercized Recommended Reading: Martin Heidegger, Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity, tr by John Van Buren (Indiana, 1999) {at Amazon com} and Alterity and Facticity: New Perspectives on Husserl, ed by Natalie Depraz and Dan Zahavi (Kluwer, 1998) {at Amazon com} Also see Robert Cavalier and noesis