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factive

adj

Etymology

From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).

  1. derived from facere — “to make”
  2. borrowed from factīvus

Definitions

  1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed…

    Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.

    • Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).

  2. Which does not know any falsities

    Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

  3. A factive verb.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Making

      Making; creative.

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Derived

contrafactive, factively, factiveness, factivity, nonfactive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for factive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA