One of the most significant features of platonism is the fact that it allows us to adopt the same semantics for both mathematical and scientific discourse. Given the existence of mathematical objects, mathematical statements are true in the same way as scientific statements are true. The only difference emerges from their respective truth makers: mathematical statements are true in virtue of abstract (mathematical) objects and relations among them, whereas scientific statements are ultimately true in virtue of concrete objects and the corresponding relations among such objects. This point is idealized in that it assumes that, somehow, we can manage to distill the empirical content of scientific statements independently of the contribution made by the mathematics that is often used to express such statements. Platonists who defend the indispensability argument insist that this is not possible to do (Quine 1960; Colyvan 2001a); even some nominalists concur (Azzouni 2011).