We saw that with the introduction of the existence predicate it is not clear that the deflationary nominalist is in fact able to take mathematical language literally. After all, some reconstruction of that language seems to be needed. It should be granted that the level of reconstruction involved is significantly less than what is found in the other versions of nominalism discussed above. As opposed to them, the deflationary nominalist is able to accommodate significant aspects of mathematical practice without the need for creating a full parallel discourse (in particular, no operators, modal or fictional, need to be introduced). However, some level of reconstruction is still needed to accommodate the existence predicate, which then compromises the deflationary nominalist's capacity to take mathematical language literally.