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On Bellert's proposal concerning quantificational universals

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The aim of the paper is to formalize I. Bellert's (McGill) proposal to characterize distinct nonequivalent readings of quantificationally ambiguous sentences with help of two features: absoluteness and distributiveness. The formalisation makes use of set theoretical and model theoretical standard notions. Foundamental rules, proposed by Bellert, govering the interpretation of cooccurring quantifiers are quoted and outlines of proofs of important derived rules are given.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Matejki 48/49, Poznań, Poland

    Zygmunt Vetulani

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This research was sponsored by the grant CPBP 08.15-2/3, but some of results were obtained during the author's visit (May 86) in the Department of Philosophy of the Salzburg University: thanks are due to Prof. P. Weingartner for his hospitality.

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Vetulani, Z. On Bellert's proposal concerning quantificational universals. Stud Logica 46, 311–320 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370642

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