Logical Conversions

As I have argued elsewhere [10], and as summarized in the first two sections below, it turns out to be both logically and semantically revealing to acknowledge the existence of converse, or conversely construed, quantifiers, which mirror their classical, or classically construed, counterparts. In this paper I argue that classically construed quantifiers in their turn mirror their conversely construed counterparts in transitive verb/direct object constructions. The phenomena can be properly understood if we discharge the domain presupposition which is associated with the classical construal from its default existential import. We propose to, instead, draw from a concept of intentional reification, that goes without existential commitment.