Superlative quantifiers and epistemic interpretation of disjunction
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We discuss semantics of superlative quantifiers at most n and at least n. We argue that the meaning of a quantifier is a pair specifying a verification and a falsification condition for sentences with this quantifier. We further propose that the verification condition of superlative quantifiers should be interpreted in an epistemic way, that is as a conjunctive list of possibilities. We also present results of a reasoning experiment in which we analyze the acceptance rate of inferences with superlative and comparative quantifiers in German. We discuss the results in the light of
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تاریخ انتشار 2012