Meaning of factive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
   not-comparable
2. Making; creative.
   not-comparable, obsolete
3. Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
   not-comparable

Examples

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

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