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Factive

Factive \Fac"tive\, a. Making; having power to make. [Obs.] ``You are . . . factive, not destructive.''
--Bacon.

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factive

a. 1 (context linguistics of a verb English) license only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true. 2 (context epistemology of a knowing agent English) which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.