"However, it appears to me that many companies are now doing so; there is no indication that their pricing commitments are short-term or of such limited quantity that we should doubt their sincerity".
So, to take this into account in Bi-OT (or in any other analysis of Quantity implicatures) we should allow for alternative interpretations that represent different knowledge states of the speaker.
Instead of fretting over the quantity of calories, we should be worrying about their quality.
"I just do not believe that in the medical profession, which at its core is about protecting the quality and quantity of life, we should become the agent by which we hand them a prescription so they can choose the exact time and moment of their death," said M. Zuhdi Jasser, an internist and primary-care physician who serves as an AMA delegate from Arizona.
In Leading Teams, he argues that we in addition to assessing the quality and quantity of output, we should expand our measures of team effectiveness to include viability -- whether the team retains its capability to work together in the future.
In the calculation, we assume that the measurements are not independent measurements of the same quantity, in which case we should have used the uncertainty of the mean value of the S indices as the uncertainty instead of the standard deviation of the different measurements of the S indices.
As long as each package was constructed with the same quantity of material inside, we should be able to get a representative comparison.
If a trade-off between quantity and quality exists, we should regard the coefficients in the model as upper bound of the estimates given the positive association between governance and the quality.
Rules that adopt concise numerical values may appear to be more practical, which is why society often imposes specific standards on us, such as the amount of money we should earn, the ideal body weight we should maintain or the recommended quantity of food we should consume each day.
We should try quantity mechanisms and see how they work.
