expression of quantification...quantifier, symbolized by (∀-) or (-), where the blank is filled by a variable, is used to express that the formula following holds for all values of the particular variable quantified. The existential quantifier, symbolized (∃-), expresses that the formula following holds for some (at least one) value of that quantified variable.
foundations of mathematics...(0) and successor ( S). Underlying all this were the basic logical concepts: conjunction (∧), disjunction (∨), implication (⊃), negation (¬), and the universal (∀) and existential (∃) quantifiers (formalized by the German mathematician Gottlob Frege [1848–1925]). (The modern notation owes more to the influence of the English logician Bertrand Russell...
predicate calculus...universal quantifiers, written as “(∀ )” or often simply as “( ),” where the blank is filled by a variable, which may be read, “For all —”; and existential quantifiers, written as “(∃ ),” which may be read, “For some —” or “There is a — such that.” (“Some” is to be understood...
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