[f. QUANTIFY v.: see -FICATION.] The action of quantifying.
Quantification of the predicate: the expression of the logical quantity of the predicate of a proposition, by applying to the predicate the sign all, or some, or an equivalent; a device introduced chiefly by Sir W. Hamilton, and intended to simplify logical processes.
1840. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic (1866), II. 297. Because the universal quantification of the predicate is, in this instance, materially false, is such quantification, therefore, always formally illegal?
1864. Bowen, Logic, vii. 181. It is enough that the quantifications of the Middle Term in both Premises, added together, should exceed unity.
1882. Piazzi Smith, in Nature, XXVI. 552. All that we require for the … quantification of watery vapour.
