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Full Idea
An adequate language for referring to infinitely many objects would seem to require variables and quantifiers in addition to names.
Gist of Idea
Quantifiers are needed to refer to infinitely many objects
Source
Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.164)
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Logic: an anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.164