factive
English
Etymology
fact + -ive
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æktɪv
Adjective
factive (not comparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
- 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.
- (epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
Noun
factive (plural factives)
- (grammar) A factive verb.