 A few people—e.g., Katz (1998), Thomas (2000 and 2002), Hoffman (2004), Burgess (2004), and Thomasson (2013)—have objected to fictionalism on the grounds that there are obvious disanalogies between mathematics and fiction. (What exactly the disanalogies are differs in different versions of the objection. E.g., Katz argues that consistency is an important criterion for goodness in mathematics but not in fiction. And Burgess argues that the question of whether mathematical objects exist is not empirically meaningful, whereas the question of whether the (non-abstract) objects in our fictional stories exist is empirically meaningful.)