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What does factive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
  2. (epistemology, of a knowing agent) which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
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Hard information is factive, and unrevisable.
This is because knowledge and direct perception predicates are factive, in that they presuppose the truth of their complements.
Factive is the first antibiotic specifically indicated for CAP caused by these resistant organisms.
To say that a propositional attitude is factive is to say that it is impossible for you to have that attitude towards anything other than a true proposition.
It is widely assumed that knowledge is factive.
The author argues that the rational source of both phenomenal and factive evidence lies in employing perceptual capacities that we have in virtue of being perceivers.

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