contrafactive

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• contrafactive — adjective Describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false …   Wiktionary

• non-factive — ˌnon ˈfactive 7 [non factive] adjective (grammar) (of verbs) talking about sth that may or may not be a true fact. ‘Believe ’ and ‘doubt ’ are non factive …   Useful english dictionary