Quantification has two distinct meanings.In mathematics and empirical science, it refers to human acts, known as counting and measuring that map human sense observations and experiences into member of some set of numbers. Quantification in this sense is fundamental to the scientific method.In logic, quantification refers to an operator that binds a variable ranging over a domain of discourse. The variable thereby becomes bound. Academic discussion of quantification refers more often to this meaning of the term than the preceding one. Natural language All known human languages make use of quantification (Wiese 2004). For example, in English: Every glass in my recent order was chipped. Some of the people standing across the river have white armbands. Most of the people I talked to didn't have a clue who the candidates were. Everyone in the waiting room had at least one complaint against Dr. Ballyhoo. There was somebody in his class that was able to correctly answer every one

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