The deflationary nominalist, as noted above, is not committed to offering a reconstruction, or any kind of reformulation, of mathematical theories. (The exception here is the case of inconsistent mathematical or scientific theories, which according to the deflationary nominalist, ideally are regimented as consistent first-order theories.) No special semantics is required to make sense of mathematics: the same semantics that is used in the case of scientific theories is invoked for mathematical theories. It may seem that the uniform semantics requirement is thus satisfied. But the situation is more complicated.