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- noun The state or condition of being
factive .
Etymologies
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factive + -ity
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Examples
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p, unless p, and thus information meets the factivity implication of knowledge (that if S knows that p then p).
Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006
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And questions about the factivity of K may be defused rather quickly, since related paradoxes emerge replacing the factive operator “It is known that” with a non-factive operators, such as ˜It is rationally believed that™ (Mackie 1980: 92;
Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009
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