factive

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

Adjective grammar, human sciences

  1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
    • Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2). - 2003, Petra Schulz, Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition, de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2:

    Antonyms: nonfactive contrafactive

    Coordinate Terms: factual counterfactual

  2. Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

Origin

Etymology tree English fact Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English factive From fact + -ive.

Related

abortifactive benefactive factitive malefactive

Derived

contrafactive factively factiveness factivity nonfactive

Adjective not comparable, obsolete

  1. Making; creative.

Origin

From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).

Noun

  1. A factive verb.

Forms

factives