 (3) Both in his (2000a) and elsewhere, Yablo draws up a list of analogies between on the one hand uncontroversially non-literal discourse and on the other hand discourse about “platonic objects” — for present purposes one can think of these simply as would-be objects ripe for fictionalist  treatment[2]  —. I will not here reproduce the whole list. But here are some representative suggested analogies: 