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Quantifiers

Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Jul 27, 1978
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Authors:
Susan Haack

Abstract

‘(x) Fx’ is usually read long the lines of ‘For all x, Fx’, and ‘(∃x)Fx’ along the lines of ‘For some x, Fx’ or, more accurately, ‘For at least one x, Fx’; ‘(…)’ is generally known as the universal, ‘(∃ …)’ as the existential, quantifier. A variable inside the scope of a quantifier, such as ‘x’ in ‘...

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