quantificationaladj.
/ˌkwɒntᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌkwɒntᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈˌkwɑn(t)əfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Chiefly Logic.
Of, relating to, or involving quantification.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective]
metena1400
metrical1650
mensural1651
decimal1794
metrological1834
mensurational1880
quantificational1939
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > of quantification
quantified1847
prenex1939
quantificational1939
1939 W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Philos. 36 707 The quantificational use of variables is exhaustive in the sense that all use of variables is reducible to this sort of use.
1957 N. Chomsky in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 266/2 A ‘quantificational’ sentence such as ‘everyone in the room knows at least two languages’.
1966 Jrnl. Philos. 63 699 The first-order quantificational calculus with identity.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Dec. 1466/3 He is equally curt with some of the most familiar arguments in favour of God's existence: Aquinas's third way is guilty of an elementary quantificational fallacy.
1981 Performing Arts Jrnl. 5 63 The quantificational imperative which reduced human experience to cold categorical figures.
2005 Bull. Symbolic Logic 11 203 He did have Å in mind all along, but erred in working out the quantificational prefix in its representation in the polynomial form.
Derivatives
ˌquantifiˈcationally adv.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > [adverb]
quantificationally1948
1948 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 13 181 A system is quantificationally complete if all possible quantifiers are definable in terms of the basic quantifiers of the system.
1998 Philos. Sci. 65 303 The only kind of force that quantificationally introduced concepts have is purely structural.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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