factify
factify verb: to establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
Verb
factify (third-person singular simple present factifies, present participle factifying, simple past and past participle factified)
- To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
- the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a...1999 September 9, Jerry Hull, “Re: Metaphysical Death Match: Mental vs. Physical”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet)
- Where appropriate, Diana qualifies her statements. She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does. She does not factify myth, as I show Park Honan and Anthony Holden doing above.2001 March 3, Pat Dooley, “Re: Re: Susanna Hall's Signature”, in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet)
Examples of factify in a sentence
- But, of course, we can factify anything.1999 September 9, Jerry Hull, “Re: Metaphysical Death Match: Mental vs. Physical”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet):
- Such ambitions of authenticity function to factify the fiction, literally to prop it up, performing a positivist role as the tangible trace of a lost era.2002 November 23, Sarah Cardwell, Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel, Manchester University Press:
Forms of factify
| third-person singular present | factifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | factifying |
| past participle | factified |
| past | factified |
Origin of factify
From fact + -ify.
Questions about factify
- What does factify mean?
- Factify means to establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
- How do you use factify in a sentence?
- But, of course, we can factify anything.
- What part of speech is factify?
- Factify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of factify?
- The past tense of factify is factified.
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