The term quantifier variance refers to claims that there is no uniquely best ontological language with which to describe the world.
This thesis can be used to explain how some disputes in ontology are only due to a failure of the disagreeing parties to agree on the meaning of the quantifiers used.
[4]The word quantifier in the introduction refers to a variable used in a domain of discourse, a collection of objects under discussion.
[6] Hirsch says the notion of quantifier variance is a concept concerning how languages work, and is not connected to the ontological question of what 'really' exists.
[8] The thesis underlying quantifier variance was stated by Putnam: The logical primitives themselves, and in particular the notions of object and existence, have a multitude of different uses rather than one absolute 'meaning'.