This objection might have force against the application of a quantifier criterion to ordinary language if it could be argued that the quantifiers of ordinary language are sometimes (or always) substitutional.[18] But it is not in any way an objection to a quantifier criterion as Quine conceived of it. Quine stipulated that the quantifiers of the first-order language were to be interpreted objectually—indeed, the substitutional interpretation cannot be applied to Quine's austere language with no