 In two important articles from the 1980s George Boolos challenges this traditional view (Boolos 1984 and 1985a). He argues that it is simply a prejudice to insist that the plural locutions of natural language be paraphrased away. Instead he suggests that just as the singular quantifiers \(\Forall{x}\) and \(\Exists{x}\) get their legitimacy from the fact that they represent certain quantificational devices in natural language, so do their plural counterparts \(\Forall{xx}\) and \(\Exists{xx}\). For there can be no doubt that in natural language we use and understand the expressions “for any things” and “there are some things”.[4]  Since these quantifiers bind variables that take name (rather than predicate) position, they are first-order quantifiers, albeit plural ones.