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'''Factive predicate''' is a [[predicate]] which entails or presupposes the truth of one of its arguments.

=== Example ===

A sentence such as ''John knows that Bill is ill'' can be true only if its propositional argument ''Bill is ill'' is true. Factive predicates are distinguished from non-factive predicates (such as ''believe'') and counter-factives (such as ''pretend''). Thus, the truth-value of ''John believes that Bill is ill'' does not depend on the truth-value of the proposition ''Bill is ill'', whereas ''John pretends that he is ill'' can only be true if he is not ill.

=== Link ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Factive+predicate&lemmacode=739 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

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