 On the second understanding of the claim that ordinary objects do not exist fundamentally, the idea is that they are not in the domain of a fundamental quantifier, where the fundamental quantifiers are the quantifiers that appear in the best correct and complete theory of the world. To help see how the two understandings of “exists fundamentally” can come apart, notice that the identity relation is plausibly fundamental (appearing in the best theory of the world), despite the fact that it relates every object—including nonfundamental objects—to itself. A relation can be fundamental without dragging everything in its extension into the fundamental level with it. Similarly, even if the ordinary existential quantifier is a fundamental quantifier, that does not obviously entail that everything in its domain (namely: everything) is fundamental as  well.[79]