quantifier
Noun
Meaning
(logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
(grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
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But often instead of quantifier elimination a weaker property suffices: A theory T is called model-complete if every substructure of a model of T which is itself a model of T is an elementary substructure.
Formalizing natural languages First-order logic is able to formalize many simple quantifier constructions in natural language, such as "every person who lives in Perth lives in Australia".
Finally, we would like, for reasons of technical convenience, that the prefix of φ (that is, the string of quantifiers at the beginning of φ, which is in normal form) begin with a universal quantifier and end with an existential quantifier.
Here the order of the universal quantifiers for x and for ε is not important, but the order of the former and the existential quantifier for N is.
However, some also serves as a quantifier rather than as a plural article, as in "There are some apples there, but not many."
A sentence is a formula in which each occurrence of a variable is in the scope of a corresponding quantifier.