Make sure you know what the following concepts mean and how to use them appropriately:
- restricted quantifier
- restrictor
- relations between sets in set theory: identity (=), proper subset, subset, set difference (check book for missing symbols)
- cardinality of a set (||)
- operators for number comparison >, <, and related (check book for symbols)
- strong and weak determiners, noun phrases
Make sure you understand:
- that "in Generalized Quantifier Theory a quantifier determiner expresses a relation between sets" (Kearns, p. 73; my boldface)
- that we give a semantics to the logical formulae we build through the use of set theory: in particular,
- we establish what the relationship between the set denoted by the restrictor and the set denoted by the predicate must be for the sentence to be true,
- using relations between sets and comparisons between their cardinalities
- the difference between strong and weak determiners wrt the role they play in discourse
Make sure you know how to:
- translate a sentence with one or more restricted quantifier into a formula in predicate logic
- represent the scopal ambiguity introduced by quantifiers using restricted quantifiers (see example (15))
- AND paraphrase the different meanings represented by each formalization
- express the truth conditions of a sentence involving restricted quantifiers using set theory
- how to identify strong and weak determiners / noun phrases (section 4.5)
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