3.1.4 The Fifth Reading

Two readings may be equivalent...

If you have already looked closely at all the readings we have listed for the complex example, you will have noticed that the fourth and fifth readings are logically equivalent.

...but not necessarily

The reason why we have listed readings four and five separately in spite of this is that there are structurally identical examples (which just use other determiners) in which the two readings do mean different things. Consider the sentence ``Every researcher of a company saw most samples.'' Because of the determiner "most", the readings of this sentence can't be represented in first-order logic, but we can use as the analogue of and in the terms. We are then able to write the semantic representations of the fourth (1.) and fifth (2.) reading of the previous example as follows: