 Given this, most fictionalists would probably say that the problem with deflationary-truth nominalism is that it’s empirically implausible. In other words, the objection would be that deflationary-truth nominalism flies badly in the face of our intuitions about the meaning of ‘true’. And there does seem to be some justification for this claim. For instance, it just seems intuitively obvious that the sentence ‘Mars is a planet’ could not be literally true unless there really existed such a thing as Mars. Moreover, intuitively, the sentence ‘Mars is a planet, but it doesn’t exist’ seems like a contradiction, and this intuition seems to be incompatible with deflationary-truth nominalism. If this is right—if the deflationary-truth semantic thesis runs counter to our semantic intuitions—then this provides strong evidence for thinking it’s false.