What Does “Facticity” Mean, and Why It Defines Our Fact-Checking Platform

Why the word Facticity for www.Facticity.AI?

Part of the reason is that I love Simone de Beauvoir, especially her Ethics of Ambiguity which I read as I toured Europe and sat in the corner seat that she and Jean-Paul Satre used to occupy at Café de Flore (Source)

This beautiful description is Andy West's:

"In The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), she said that at each moment of our lives, we are between a multitude of dualities. We are both mind and matter. We are sovereign individuals yet we have commitments to our group. We are the product of our random luck as well as our agency. One of the most crucial tensions for Beauvoir is the one between what she calls facticity and transcendence. Our facticity is the inescapable facts of our situation, such as our age, our familial history, and the fact that one day we will die. Our transcendence is what we’re capable of becoming through our free will. Facticity is what is; transcendence is what is possible." (Source)

Both the Billionaires on the left who claim that the Lucky Sperm Club and the right who claim that Pure Skill (of determinate optimism) is all that matters respectively, are removing either unchoosable circumstances or free will from the equation. Both are wrong as this is a false dichotomy to begin with. The word Facticity is trending up and bound to trend higher as many on the right will deny that luck had anything to do with their success. Don't believe me? Just watch: Google Books Ngram Viewer