 Another reaction to Baker’s argument is provided by Tallant 2013 which, just as Rizza, 2011, defends a ‘piecemeal’ strategy for nominalism, namely to deflate the challenge posed by the cicada case through a nominalization of prime number talk using mereological reformulations of the number-theoretic results. A challenge against this strategy is offered by Baker 2017b who claims that the entanglement of mathematics in scientific explanation is much deeper than has been realized so far and it extends to mathematical properties that, in addition to having empirical consequences, are consequences of the mathematical theorems appealed to explicitly in the explanations. The claims rely on an explanation of the periods of magicicadas that improves on the original version given in Baker 2005.