LOGICAL QUANTIFIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logical quantifier mean? 

• LOGICAL QUANTIFIER (noun)
  The noun LOGICAL QUANTIFIER has 1 sense:

1. (logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition

  Familiarity information: LOGICAL QUANTIFIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGICAL QUANTIFIER (noun)

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Meaning:

(logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

logical quantifier; quantifier

Hypernyms ("logical quantifier" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logical quantifier"):

existential operator; existential quantifier (a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true)