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    Jaakko Hintikka

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24, SF-00014, Finland

    Gabriel Sandu

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Hintikka, J., Sandu, G. What is a quantifier?. Synthese 98, 113–129 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064028

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