constative — Dicionário de inglês

Adjetivo

1. Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Palavras relacionadas

   performative

   Exemplos

   Statements are constative utterances.

   Mais exemplos (1)

   One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.

Substantivo

1. An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

   Exemplos

   The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.