Perhaps the deflationary nominalist will respond by arguing that the existence predicate is already part of the language, maybe implicitly via contextual and rhetorical factors (Azzouni 2007, Section III; Azzouni 2004, Chapter 5). What would be needed then is evidence for such a claim, and an indication of how exactly the predicate is in fact found in scientific, mathematical and ordinary contexts. Consider, for instance, the sentences: