factive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

noun

adj

factive factives

From fact + -ive.

nonfactive contrafactive

abortifactive benefactive factitive malefactive

contrafactive factively factiveness factivity nonfactive

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