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Ideas for 'works', 'To be is to be the value of a variable..' and 'On the Algebra of Logic'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

10700	First- and second-order quantifiers are two ways of referring to the same things [Boolos]
	Full Idea: Ontological commitment is carried by first-order quantifiers; a second-order quantifier needn't be taken to be a first-order quantifier in disguise, having special items, collections, as its range. They are two ways of referring to the same things.
	From: George Boolos (To be is to be the value of a variable.. [1984], p.72)
	A reaction: If second-order quantifiers are just a way of referring, then we can see first-order quantifiers that way too, so we could deny 'objects'.