Meaning of factively | Babel Free

Definitions

In a factive manner.

not-comparable

Examples

“This work⟳ shows that a nominalized clause with the internal type⟳ ‘pro-fact’ noun –(u)n kes in Korean (and in Japanese as well with koto), witness-based, is factively presupposed by itself and contradicted if predicated by negated veracious adjectives in a veridicality test⟳.”

“In the last⟳ few years, the traditional analysis of know⟳ as a factive verb has been lively debated by linguists and philosophers of language: several scholars have⟳ pointed out that know⟳ may be used non-factively in ordinary language. The aim of the present⟳ study⟳ is to expand⟳ this inquiry to other cognitive factive verbs than know⟳, such as discover⟳, realize⟳, etc., and to investigate⟳ cross-linguistically the question⟳ of whether know⟳ and other cognitive factive verbs may occur⟳ in non-factive contexts, that is, in contexts where it is clear that the embedded proposition is false.”

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