 No one has ever defended hermeneutic fictionalism, as it’s defined above. Yablo (2002a) claims that his view is a version of hermeneutic fictionalism—and Plebani (2018) follows him in this way of talking—but the view that these philosophers have in mind is a bit different from the hermeneutic fictionalist view described above. Yablo does not claim that mathematicians intend their utterances of sentences like ‘3 is prime’ to be taken as fictional claims. Rather, he thinks these utterances are (at least sometimes, or perhaps typically) analogous to ordinary examples of figurative speech, e.g., sentences like ‘The back burner is where you put things to let them simmer.’ This sentence contains a singular term—‘the back burner’—that seems (syntactically) to be a denoting expression; but it’s not really a denoting expression (at least in typical cases) and to interpret it as a genuine denoting expression in sentences like the above would be to badly misunderstand what typical speakers of sentences like this intend to be saying. Yablo thinks that something like this is true in connection with typical utterances of (pure and mixed) mathematical sentences, e.g., sentences like ‘3 is prime’ and ‘The number of Martian moons is 2.’ So Yablo is certainly proposing a hermeneutic nominalist view, but it’s not clear that his view is best thought of as a kind of hermeneutic fictionalism. As was noted above (section 2.1), the view might be better classified as a sort of paraphrase nominalism. Yablo calls his view figuralism, and he talks as if it is a version of fictionalism. But he seems to be using the term ‘fictionalism’ differently from how it’s been defined here. What he likely has in mind is this: on a literal reading, mathematical sentences are untrue, as fictionalism says, but there’s an alternative reading on which they come out true (and nominalistically kosher). But what makes it awkward to take Yablo’s view as a version of fictionalism is that he seems to think that what (pure and mixed) mathematical sentences really say—or, more precisely, what typical utterances of these sentences really say—is true and nominalistic in content. This sounds more like paraphrase nominalism than fictionalism.