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Bencivenga (1990) pointed out that classical and free quantification theories are naturally associated with the frameworks of the transcendental realist and the transcendental idealist, respectively.2
This note has profited greatly from discussions with Karel Lambert.
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Bencivenga, E. (1999). Realism, Idealism, and General Terms. In: Chiara, M.L.D., Giuntini, R., Laudisa, F. (eds) Language, Quantum, Music. Synthese Library, vol 281. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2043-4_1
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