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Week 12 Quiz Q16 Bare Plural #52

Open skylee03 opened 10 months ago

skylee03 commented 10 months ago

The question is:

IDEs have built-in static analysis capabilities.

In this sentence, "IDEs" is a bare plural introduced by a null quantifier. Therefore, it has at least three different interpretations:

  1. $[{}_\text{Q.ALL}\varnothing]$ IDEs have built-in static analysis capabilities. (Universal)
  2. $[{}_\text{Q.MOST}\varnothing]$ IDEs have built-in static analysis capabilities. (Generic)
  3. $[{}_\text{Q.SOME}\varnothing]$ IDEs have built-in static analysis capabilities. (Existential)

Which interpretation should we adopt when answering question 16?

wwweert123 commented 10 months ago

Should be existential or generic