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Full Idea
Some substitutional quantificationists in logic hope to avoid philosophical entanglements about the metaphysics of objects, ..and nominalists can find aid and comfort there.
Gist of Idea
Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects
Source
Dale Jacquette (Intro to III: Quantifiers [2002], p.143)
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Logic: an anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.143
A Reaction
This has an appeal for me, particularly if it avoids abstract objects, but I don't see much problem with material objects, so we might as well have a view that admits those.