Grice on numerical quantifiers: "(∃x)", "at least ONE"

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From Grice, WoW: 22

(∃x) ---- "at least ONE"

QUANTIFIERS CAN BE NUMERICAL

This means that we are to suppose that counting – numerals enter discourse as indices to numerical quantifiers.

Note that "fewer" strongly predominates over "less" with plain plural C nouns ("fewer people"), but "less" predominates over "fewer" with numerical quantifiers ("less than ten people").