The draft paper is still under review. There might be something to correct. All comments are welcome. Abstract: This paper considers the quantified simple sentences by \textit{Most}, sometimes referred to as proportional, sometimes...
moreThe draft paper is still under review. There might be something to correct.
All comments are welcome.
Abstract:
This paper considers the quantified simple sentences by \textit{Most}, sometimes referred to as proportional, sometimes the majority. The sentence form: \textit{Most A are B} where \textit{A} and \textit{B} are plural nouns. A and B range over elements of P(N). Moreover, A and B may appear complemented (i.e., as Non−A and Non−B). Two different but equivalent semantics are for \textit{Most A are B} as (i) C(A∩B)>C(A∖B) and (ii) C(A∩B)>C(A)2 where C(X) is the cardinality of the set X. Both semantics work well on finite sets but exhibit problematic behaviors on infinite sets since division is undefined on cardinal arithmetic. Although semantics (i) is more descriptive than semantics (ii), it also produces insensitivity for certain sets. \textquotedblleft Most" has a solid cardinal structure under the interpretation of the majority, and has the more statistical structure with proportional interpretation, and this statistical interpretation provides more flexible range of motion. For all these reasons, we introduce a new semantics with natural density for the sentences ranging over N. We also give an axiomatization of this logic.