Full Idea
There is a readiness of philosophers to 'translate' English, with its seeming multitude of kind-driven quantifiers, into first-order logic, with its single wide-open quantifier.
Gist of Idea
Philosophers reduce complex English kind-quantifiers to the simplistic first-order quantifier
Source
Michael Jubien (Possibility [2009], 4.1)
Book Reference
Jubien,Michael: 'Possibility' [OUP 2009], p.85
A Reaction
As in example he says that reference to a statue involves a 'statue-quantifier'. Thus we say things about the statue that we would not say about the clay, which would involve a 'clay-quantifier'.