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Other authors have contested that the criterion <i>under<\/i>generates by failing to count as logical notions which ought to be so regarded. I argue that isomorphism invariance also faces a more radical objection, from indeterminacy. In the context of positive free logic (PFL), there appear to be two admissible precisifications of isomorphism invariance to test quantification for logicality. These warrant contradictory claims about the logical status of quantifiers. I conclude that the logical status of PFL-quantifiers, given isomorphism invariance, is unknowable and thus indeterminate. 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