Factualとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈfæk.tʃ(u)əl/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfæk.(t)ʃ(ʊ)əl/
  • (dated, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfæk.tj(ʊ)əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfɛk.(t)ʃ(ʉː)əl/
• 韻: -æktʃuəl, -æktʃəl, -ækʃuəl, -ækʃəl

形容詞

factual (comparative more factual, superlative most factual)

1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.

   Antonyms: unfactual, nonfactual; opinionated, subjective; biased

   Coordinate term: semifactual

   • 2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.

   • 2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 34:

     If, as Marx claimed, these factual views were held by the ideologists of the nineteenth century and if these factual claims could be proven false, then Marx could claim to have refuted certain tenets of capitalist political philosophy on a purely  […]

   • 2014, Derek Matravers, Fiction and Narrative, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:

     Thus, the approach has more flexibility than Lamarque and Olsen's approach; in particular, it is open to the possibility that false factual claims do affect our understanding of, and our evaluation of, fictional narratives.

2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality.

   Antonyms: counterfactual, contrafactual, antifactual, unfactual, nonfactual, post-factual, extra-factual

   Coordinate term: semifactual

   • 1957 December, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892:

     A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.

   • 2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, Bethany House Pub, →ISBN:

     He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."

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Further reading

• “factual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “factual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

名詞

factual (uncountable)

1. (broadcasting) Programmes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.

   The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.

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