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    Supports→'Most' indicates a function that maps ⟨X, Y⟩ to T iff the number of things that both Y and X map to T exceeds the number of things that Y but not X maps to T.

    Quantifiers can be represented as functions on ordered pairs of predicates.

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    Just as we can describe ‘likes’ as a predicate satisfied by ordered pairs \(\langle x, y \rangle\) such that \(x\) likes \(y\), so we can think about ‘every’ as a predicate satisfied by ordered pairs \(\langle X, Y \rangle\) such that the extension of \(X\) includes the extension of \(Y\). (This is compatible with thinking about ‘every boy’ as a restricted quantifier that combines with a predicate to form a sentence that is true iff every boy satisfies that predicate.) One virtue of this notatio

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