 But there is also a second problem with deflationary-truth nominalism: it’s supposed to provide us with a way of avoiding platonism, but in fact, it doesn’t. Prima facie, it might seem that deflationary-truth nominalism does deliver a way of avoiding platonism, because the argument for platonism might seem to rely upon premise (2) above—i.e., it might seem to rely upon the anti-deflationary-truth claim that if sentences like ‘4 is even’ should be read at face value, i.e., as being of the form ‘Fa’, and if these sentence are literally true, then we are committed to believing in the objects that they’re about, e.g., the number 4. But, in fact, platonists can formulate their argument so that it doesn’t rely upon this anti-deflationary-truth premise. To bring this point out, let’s begin by introducing two new terms of art—‘true1’ and ‘true2’—and stipulating that ‘true1’ is to be taken as expressing the platonist-fictionalist concept of truth, so that a sentence of the form ‘Fa’ cannot be true1 unless ‘a’ refers to an actually existing object, whereas ‘true2’ expresses a deflationary concept of truth, so that a sentence of the form ‘Fa’ can be true2 even if ‘a’ doesn’t refer to any actually existing object. Given this, platonists can say the following: 