That sentence is full of jargon. You can find a description of universal and existential logical quantifiers here.
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Universal Quantifieris a logical statement that applies to all elements of a set. - An
Existential Quantifieris a logical statement that applies to at least one element of a set.
You can also look here for a quick description of first-order logic. The term is meant to separate first-order from higher-order logic:
First-orderlogical statements are the usual ones; they act on members of a set.Higher-orderlogical statements act on other logical statements; think of them as meta-logic.