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factive

The English word “factive” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
  2. Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
  3. Making; creative.

noun

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

Etymology

From fact + -ive.

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