Boguslawski's analysis of quantification in natural language (translated and otherwise adapted for use by philosophers of language)

In a recent paper, Andrzej Boguslawski has put forth some powerful reasons to reject some orthodoxies concerning the literal meanings of “some”, “all”, and other quantifier. Boguslawski's paper is written for linguists, not for philosophers of language. For that reason, philosophers of language are unlikely to understand it or, therefore, to see the relevance to their own work of Boguslawski's points. The present paper can be thought of as a “translation” of Boguslawski's paper. Originally written in the language of linguistics, Boguslawski's paper is hereby being translated into the language of the philosophy of language. That said, the translation is not a strict one. The present author has taken the liberty of extending and otherwise modifying some of Boguslawski's arguments and, to a lesser extent, of doing the same with some of his key contentions.