† quantifiedadj.1
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Possessing or endowed with quantity or physical magnitude.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [adjective] > having or considered with respect to quantity
quantified?1591
quantitative1610
quantitive1626
quantative1644
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to quantity
quantified?1591
pre-indesignate1846
predefinite1847
predesignate1847
predesignatory1852
?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament iii. sig. L8 God may not..abolishe this bodie quhilk hee hes appointed to be eternall; ather zit to make it at ane time, in respect of ane thing a bodie and not a bodie, quantified & not quantified, finite and infinite, locall and not locall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
quantifiedadj.2
/ˈkwɒntᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈkwɑn(t)əˌfaɪd/ 1. Logic, Mathematics, and Linguistics. Of a term, proposition, etc.: containing a quantifier or quantifiers; (of a variable) associated with a quantifier that indicates its scope (e.g., ‘For all x’, ‘For some x’). Of a system of logic: involving the use of quantifiers.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [adjective] > of quantification
quantified1847
prenex1939
quantificational1939
1847 W. Hamilton in A. de Morgan Formal Logic App. 312 There is now evidence in your possession that for seven years at least, the doctrine of a quantified predicate has been..taught by me.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 257 The real terms compared in the Convertend..are not the naked, but the quantified.
1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxii. 186 Immediate inference by added determinant..can also be applied..to quantified propositions.
1926 Ann. Math. 28 17 A singly-quantified proposition involves only one applicative, ‘some’ or ‘every’, though it may involve any number of variables.
1947 W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 12 47 The contemplated version of quantified modal logic is committed to an ontology which repudiates material objects.
1951 J. Łukasiewicz Aristotle's Syllogistic iv. 84 Every quantified expression..consists of three parts.
1972 P. T. Geach Logic Matters ii. 69 The wrong idea that a universally quantified subject-term stands for the whole class of Ss2 can be put across.
1990 Lit. & Ling. Computing 5 156/1 The validity of any pattern of inference depends on the nature of the quantified expression and the relation between the propositions involved in the inference.
2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. 304 If we can interpret a quantified sentence meaningfully, we must be understanding the quantifiers occurring in it as ranging over the members of some domain D of interpretation.
2. Measured or assessed with respect to quantity; expressed in quantitative terms.
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1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 481 The discovery of precise quantities proves the objectivity of something quantified.
1902 Times 13 Sept. 10/3 The atom is..the quantified power of a substance, as the compound of the radical, to produce other compounds of the radical.
1956 J. C. Hook et al. Measurem. Assoc. Industr. Geogr. iii. 27 The data..[is] often expressed in terms of some subjective scale, but rank correlation techniques may also be used with objective, quantified data.
1974 M. McLuhan Let. 26 Mar. (1987) 494 Money as information, and investment, now moves at instant speeds, putting an unbearable strain..on the old price system with its quantified commodities.
2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 31 July 14 In the last year the cost of regulation far outweighs the quantified benefits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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