Reference meaning

factive

adjective·Reference

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Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.

Other meanings

2. adjective

Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

3. noun

A factive verb.

4. adjective

Making; creative.

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