factiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -æktɪv

語源 1

From fact +‎ -ive.

形容詞

factive (not comparable)

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

   Antonyms: nonfactive, contrafactive

   Coordinate terms: factual, counterfactual

   • 2003, Petra Schulz, Factivity: Its Nature and Acquisition, de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2:

     Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).

2. (epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

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名詞

factive (plural factives)

1. (grammar) A factive verb.

語源 2

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

形容詞

factive (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Making; creative.