Two issues: (i) the distinction between full and semi-factives is rejected because a) it can be reduced to a distinction in terms of pragmatic factors such as emotivity, b) complement choice is as crucial to presupposition as the semantic features of the verbal predicates, c) the sentence structures adduced to defend the distinction yield different results for the same verbs; (ii) pragmatic principles interacting with the meaning of certain predicates form a better explanation for the factivity of certain verbs than the inherent logical properties of these verbs.