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Totality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

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Language , Volume 6 , Issue 3-Part4: Language Monograph No. 6: Totality , September 1930 , pp. 6 - 28
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Copyright © 1930 Linguistic Society of America

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1 A note of warning. It is not claimed for a moment that the ordinary English uses of ‘the whole’, ‘all of’, ‘the whole of’, and ‘all’ necessarily correspond to our exacting distinctions, merely that they tend to do so. In actual practice there is considerable confusion.

2 Different, of course, from the sum in such locutions as ‘the sum of money which I give you’, which is really an indefinite quantifier, equivalent to the amount of.

3 When any is accented. When any is not definitely stressed, ‘not to any extent’ means 'not to any considerable extent,' i.e. 'not enough to satisfy requirements.'

4 Toll = counted (or computed) totality of (lost) human beings.

5 Quota = allocated totality of human beings—totality of human beings assigned to some part of an implied whole.