Constative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒnstətɪv/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Constative is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
Meaning
(linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
Example Sentences
Statements are constative utterances.
The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.
One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.
Word Forms
- constatives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aorist, declarative, obviative, locutive, statal, reportative.
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