Maximalized interpretations for more than n and similar kinds of indefinites like at least n are discussed in Reinhart 1986, Kadmon (1987, 1990, 2001), Schein 1993, and Landman (2000, 2004).
For although the indefinite 'A dodo ate my lunch' might be held to be equivalent to the particular proposition 'Some dodo ate my lunch', generic indefinites like 'A dodo is a bird', are quite different, and their semantics does not bear on the quantified sentences in the square of opposition.
Then follows a list of potential writing pitfalls passive voice, abstract words, etc.—and an exhortation to replace indefinite pronouns, like "one," with personal ones, like "you".
I am inconsistent, noncommittal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.
This was dubbed morotai, or indefinite style, like the term Impressionism, originally a dismissive critical description.
As Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage explains, writers were comfortable using they with an indefinite pronoun like everybody because it suggested a sexless plural.
Like much contemporary art that takes on an expanded documentary aesthetic, the experience is remarkably abstract and indefinite, rather like frontier zones themselves – and the more it goes on the less you can say you know for sure.
His characters are frail, thin-sapped creatures who move about their indefinite world like somnambulists — so tired as to be nearly unconscious, or dreaming bewildering dreams (there is perhaps no other writer whose protagonists spend so much time asleep), or else subsisting in a confused, hypnagogic state between sleeping and waking.
A simple indefinite assertible like 'someone is walking' is said to be true when a corresponding definite assertible is true (S. E. M 98).
