Fuzzy Quantifiers: A Computational Theory

From a linguistic perspective, it is quantification which makes all the diffence between “having no dollars” and “having a lot of dollars”. And it is the meaning of the quantifier “most” which eventually decides if “Most Americans voted Kerry” or “Most Americans voted Bush” (as it stands). Natural language(NL)quantifierslike“all”,“almostall”,“many”etc. serveanimp- tant purpose because they permit us to speak about properties of collections, as opposed to describing specific individuals only...