factual

comparative more factual · superlative most factual

1. Pertaining to or consisting of objective claims.

   Thus, the approach has more flexibility than Lamarque and Olsen's approach; in particular, it is open to the possibility that false factual claims do affect our understanding of, and our evaluation of, fictional narratives.

   2014, Derek Matravers, Fiction and Narrative, OUP Oxford, →ISBN

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   This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.

   2001 September 27, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva, Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 151

   If, as Marx claimed, these factual views were held by the ideologists of the nineteenth century and if these factual claims could be proven false, then Marx could claim to have refuted certain tenets of capitalist political philosophy on a purely […]

   2012, D.C. Kline, Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx’ Theory of Commercial Law, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 34

   Antonyms: unfactual, nonfactual, opinionated, subjective, biased

2. True, accurate, corresponding to reality.

   He knew Guardian's real name. Did he dare play that card? "Yes ma'am, that's factual information. All of it."

   2007, Robin Parrish, Fearless, Bethany House Pub, →ISBN

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   A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.

   1957 December 28, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892

   Antonyms: counterfactual, contrafactual, antifactual, unfactual, nonfactual, post-factual, extra-factual

1. uncountablebroadcastingProgrammes having content based on facts, such as documentaries.

   The BBC is increasing its budget for factual this year.