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[kwon-tuh-fahy]

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verb (used with object), quan·ti·fied, quan·ti·fy·ing.

to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.

Logic. to make explicit the quantity of (a proposition).

to give quantity to (something regarded as having only quality).

Origin:
1830–40; < Medieval Latin quantificāre, equivalent to Latin quant(us) how much + -ificāre -ify

Related forms

quan·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

quan·ti·fi·a·bly, adverb

quan·ti·fi·ca·tion, noun

non·quan·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

un·quan·ti·fi·a·ble, adjective

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un·quan·ti·fied, adjective

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quantify (ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪ)

—vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
1.	to discover or express the quantity of
2.	logic to specify the quantity of (a term) by using a quantifier, such as all, some, or no

[C19: from Medieval Latin quantificāre, from Latin quantus how much + facere to make]

'quantifiable

—*adj*

quantifi'cation

—n

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quantification

in logic, the attachment of signs of quantity to the predicate or subject of a proposition. The universal quantifier, symbolized by (-) or (-), where the blank is filled by a variable, is used to express that the formula following holds for all values of the particular variable quantified. The existential quantifier, symbolized (-), expresses that the formula following holds for some (at least one) value of that quantified variable.

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"The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true."

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