 Now, this does not mean that fictionalists can’t claim that there are some relevant analogies between mathematics and fiction. They can of course claim that there are; e.g., they might want to say that, as is the case in mathematics, there are no such things as fictional objects and, because of this, typical fictional sentences are not literally true. But by making such claims, fictionalists do not commit themselves to any stronger claims about the analogy between mathematics and fiction—e.g., that mathematical discourse is a kind of fictional discourse—and they certainly don’t commit themselves to the claim that there are no important disanalogies between the two enterprises. In short, fictionalism is perfectly consistent with the claim that there are numerous important disanalogies between mathematics and fiction.