 Given that platonists can proceed in this way, it seems that the question of whether the deflationary-truth semantic thesis is right—i.e., the question of whether the English word ‘true’ expresses the concept of truth1 or truth2—is simply a red herring. The real question is whether platonists have any good arguments for the truth1 of mathematics (and, of course, whether anti-platonists have any good arguments against the truth1 of mathematics). In other words, if we assume that premises (1) and (4) are true, so that we have to read our mathematical claims as being about (or at least purporting to be about) abstract objects, then the real question is whether there are any good reasons for choosing between platonism and fictionalism.