Lexicon of Arguments

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IV 208
Quantifier/Linguistics/Lewis: quantifier phrase: E.g. "some pigs grunt".
A quantifier is not a name.
Therefore: if a quantifier phrase QP goes together with an S/N, it must be, therefore, an S/(S/N).
S/N: Verbal phrase, takes a name N to form a sentence S.
Quantifier phrases are always replaceable by a name.
>Categories/Lewis, >Names/Lewis.
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Schwarz I 82
Plural quantifier/Lewis/Schwarz: e.g. "some" is problematic in everyday language.
>Everyday language.
Plural quantifier: replaces singular constructions - "are few" is then a property.
The plural quantifier can simulate quantification: by quantification in the plural, about couples.
>Logic, >Quantification, >Existential quantification, >Universal quantification.

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