Facticity is only ever graspable as already recovered and freely constructed

Evidence

It is impossible to grasp facticity in its brute nudity, since all that we will find of it is already recovered and freely constructed. The simple fact “of being there,” at that table, in that chair is already the pure object of a limiting-concept and as such can not be grasped. Yet it is contained in my “consciousness of being-there,” as its full contingency, as the nihilated in-itself on the basis of which the for-itself produces itself as consciousness of being there. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 345

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines facticity as the unreachable contingency beneath every freely constructed consciousness-of-being-there.
• XREF: Directly anticipates Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity, where facticity and freedom are the poles of the human condition. — connects to: Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1156; Facticity neither determines who we are nor resists us independently of consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 343; Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 725 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Facticity neither determines who we are nor resists us independently of consciousness #corroborates (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 343
• Freedom is not self-founded but thrown, creating its own facticity #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1156
• Situation is the fused double determination of freedom and facticity #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 725
• Facts only become meaningful through pre-existing conceptual criteria of choice #corroborates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1637
• The Other’s character is his facticity, given only to be surpassed #exemplifies (0.72)