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semifactual

adj
/ˌsɛmiˈfak(t)ʃʊəl/UK/ˌsɛmaɪˈfækt͡ʃuəl/US

Etymology

From semi- + factual. In the logic sense, introduced by Nelson Goodman.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factual — “fact + ual”
  5. prefixed as semifactual — “semi + factual”

Definitions

  1. Only partly factual.

    • Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became^([sic]) a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.

  2. A conditional with a false antecedent and a true consequent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semifactual. 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