Meaning of constative | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Statements are constative utterances.”

“One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take⟳ it that we somehow know⟳ that the primary or primitive use⟳ of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense⟳ of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.”

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