Quantifiers

The meaning or interpretation of the quantifiers is a more subtle question. ❋ Simons, Peter (2007)

He also composed a voluminous collection of Sophismata, which examines numerous sentences that raise difficulties of interpretation due to the presence of syncategorematic words -- i.e., terms such as quantifiers and certain prepositions, which, according to medieval logicians, do not have a proper and determinate signification but rather modify the signification of the other terms in the propositions in which they occur. ❋ Biard, Joél (2009)

Nonetheless, like a natural language, the internal system's formulae are taken to have subject/predicate form and include logical devices, such as quantifiers and variables. ❋ Margolis, Eric (2006)

The only odd thing about the results is a ton of research e.g., Bott & Noveck has suggested that evaluating sentences with some can be very slow, presumably because it involves a scalar implicature, whereas in the study some was one of the fastest quantifiers. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

Different quantifiers seem to require different amounts of computation. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

The problem with the passive sentences is they're easy to get wrong if you aren't paying attention, since people by default assume a sentence is active which seems to be what happened in this study; I've thought less about the quantifiers, but it looks like something similar is going on. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

Concepts like information and software do not come from the natural science at all, but from communication theory, and involve quantifiers like mode and description — notions that are quite alien to the physicist's description of the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Comprehension of simple quantifiers: empirical evaluation of a computational model. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

This suggests people are actually running through something like the formal math theorists use to describe quantifiers. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

This either suggests that for some reason people weren't computing implicatures in their study or that the other quantifiers were really slow or that Polish, the language they used, is just different. ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

I'll keep my eyes peeled for future "motherfucking" and "cockdoucheweaselmonkey" quantifiers from you. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)

Paul kept asking for qualifiers and quantifiers... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why not strip him of his girlish pronoun habit (which really was profound), and give him more quantifiers and determiners in each graph? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Warmbrod uses this constraint to argue that the theory of identity is not part of logic, on the grounds it is not needed to do the job he has identified for logic: “[w] e can systematize the same sets of sentences by recognizing only the truth-functional connectives and first-order quantifiers as constants, treating ˜=™ as an ordinary predicate, and adopting appropriate axioms for identity” (521; cf. Quine 1986, 63, 1980, 28). ❋ MacFarlane, John (2009)

What about “true”, the epsilon of set-theoretic membership, the sign for mereological parthood, the second-order quantifiers, or the quantifier “there are infinitely many”? ❋ MacFarlane, John (2009)

[free parking]? that [kicks] so much [ass it] can't be quantified! ❋ Crimson Scorch (2005)

[I need you] [to quantify] how much of a [cunt] I am. ❋ RobotLegs36 (2009)

That [guild] sure used to [be good]. But when they invited [Brobo], they really started to quantify. ❋ Brodofrobo (2018)

POP = Pissed-off person Scenario A: POP: I have ASKED you nicely three times already to go take this document to the main office, IDIOT!!!! Victim: If you pull any of this [aggressive-quantifying] crap on me, you can forget about having me do it. Besides, you look [fit enough] to do it yourself. Scenario B: Victim: So was this what you meant by this? POP: ***angry sigh*** YES. I SAID that FIVE MINUTES ago. Victim: What, so you're now a [stopwatch], Miss Aggressive-Quantifier? Are you saying [I'm stupid] for asking a request? Scenario C: POP: Oh my GAWD, you had SEVEN freaking chances to say hi to him. He won't know you if you don't talk to him. Victim: I would, but your aggressive-quantifying is doing nothing to help me. Scenario D: Victim: You mind giving me [that list]? POP: I gave you the list multiple times, moron! Victim: I was just asking kindly. You don't need to aggressively-quantify any trivial things! Scenario E: Victim: **Paints picture with grace** POP:***Yanks art tools from painter, then ruins it.*** There. It shouldn't take you more than FIFTEEN MINUTES to finish this painting. Victim: What the hell is wrong with you? You ruined my artwork, aggressive-quantifier!! ❋ Playrr (2020)

[Your Boss] tells you: "Your annual review is due by Monday!" You Say" "Nice, I'll shoot you my Quantify-a-licious self review as soon as i [get done] playing this level of Dawn of [Sorcery]." ❋ SgtBallz (2010)

Because I introduced Mike and [Daniele] to each other despite enormous [odds], their daughter Elizabeth is a [quantifiable miracle]. ❋ Zoltar85 (2023)