Sentence examples for domain of quantification from inspiring English sources

We adopt the idea that imperfectives share a modal architecture where an imperfective operator IMPF with an intrinsic semantic core is subject to different restrictions on its domain of quantification based on specific grammaticalization patterns across languages.

The problem concerns the domain of quantification.

Carnap instead adopts one unique denumerable domain of quantification.

For a Tarskian interpretation fixes the domain of quantification and the extensions of all the predicates.

This result is guaranteed by the assumption of a fixed domain of quantification.

This widening of the domain of quantification has to serve some (extra- linguistic purposextra- linguistic

It is one which evolves out of the ideas that (1) certain concepts and laws remain invariant under permutations of the domain of quantification, and (2) that logic ought not to dictate the size of the domain of quantification.

The current contextualist proposal starts with the observation that quantifiers in natural language typically have context-dependent domains of quantification.

Possible world semantics, of course, uses the concept of a possible world to give substance to the idea of alternative extensions and alternative domains of quantification.

Of course, this result could be avoided by populating domains of quantification with centaurs, unicorns, and all manner of fictional being.

Pretty clearly, however, to capture necessity and possibility, one must be able to consider alternative "possible" domains of quantification and alternative "possible" extensions for predicates as well.