2syllables
factive
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Definitions offactive
1noun
- (grammar) A factive verb.
1adjective
- (grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
Example: "You can't say that somebody "discovered" the Moon to be made of green cheese, because "discover" is a factive verb and the Moon isn't made of green cheese."
- (of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
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