Abstract
Summary In order to measure adults' interpretations of logical quantifiers, graduate students (N = 55 men and women) were asked to judge the consistency of items containing three propositions. The items varied according to verbal quantifier (All, Some, and None), numerical quantifier (All, Some, and None), and polarity of conclusion (affirmative or negative). The results suggested that (a) Ss interpreted the word Some as if it were written “Some but not all”; (b) negative propositions were converted to affirmative polarity before consistency judgments were made; (c) items with a double-negative construction were most difficult; and (d) verbal and numerical quantifiers had similar representations and processing in memory.
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