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Direct linkPolitzer, Guy; Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste; Delle Luche, Claire; Noveck, Ira A. – Cognitive Science, 2006
We present a set-theoretic model of the mental representation of classically quantified sentences (All P are Q, Some P are Q, Some P are not Q, and No P are Q). We take inclusion, exclusion, and their negations to be primitive concepts. We show that although these sentences are known to have a diagrammatic expression (in the form of the Gergonne…
Descriptors: Models, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Prediction
