 Yablo (2005, 2002a, 2002b) also develops a view like this (and it’s worth noting that his view here draws heavily on the work of Walton (1990)). Yablo claims that mathematics appears in science as a representational aid and that it doesn’t need to be true in order to do this well. But his version of the view is a bit different because he thinks that the sentences of our platonistically formulated empirical theories—or at least typical utterances of these sentences—are actually true, because their real contents are nominalistic. To use a trivial sort of example, consider the sentence