ˈquantified, ppl. a.
[f. quantify v. + -ed1.]
Possessing or endowed with quantity; measured or determined with respect to quantity; resulting from quantification or the use of quantifiers.
| 1589 R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 87 To make it, at ane time,..a bodie and not a bodie, quantified and not quantified. c 1840 Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. (1866) II. 259 The real terms compared in the Convertend..are not the naked, but the quantified. 1847 Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) II. 481 The discovery of precise quantities proves the objectivity of something quantified. 1870 Jevons Logic 186 Immediate inference by added determinant..can also be applied..to quantified propositions. 1951 J. {Lbar}ukasiewicz 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. 1974 H. Wang From Math. to Philos. iii. 113 The idea that truth functions governing quantified expressions must be explained in terms of propositions in which truth functions do not govern quantified expressions. |