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The meaning of sentences like *every circle is blue* could be represented in speakers’ minds in terms of individuals and their properties (e.g., for each thing that’s a circle, it’s blue) or in terms of relations between groups (e.g., the blue things include the circles). We offer evidence that this formal distinction is psychologically realized and has detectible symptoms. Participants were found to have better memory for cardinality (a fundamentally group-property) following *most*-statements compared to existential-statements and following *every*-/*all*-statements compared to *each*-statements. This supports the idea that meanings are specified in the mind at a finer grain-size than truth conditions.
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