factive — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

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

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • of a verb

   Contrari

   nonfactivecontrafactive

   Esempi

   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 knows only truths.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • of a knowing agent

Sostantivo

1. A factive verb.

Aggettivo

1. Making; creative.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • obsoleto

Sostantivo

1. A fictive taking its source from a physical person rather than a fictional work.

   Uso

   • Internet

   Parole correlate

   fictiveintroject