This paper argues that exhaustification is empirically and theoretically important as a tool in the semantic description of various constructions in natural language. Discussion focuses on the comparative construction, and presents a view of exhaustification as a ‘control element’ that influences the interpretation of a more basic element: the existential quantifier.

In this paper, some new approaches are presented to deal with the dilemma we are facing in using parity testing: (1) proposing a method of turning a parity untestable circuit into parity testable (2) presenting a scheme of replacing the exhaustive testing with nonexhaustive way. The parity testing may resume its spirits by using some new technologies including the way presented here. I. Parity ...