1. The distinction hermeneutic/revolutionary comes from Burgess 1983, who distinguishes between hermeneutic and revolutionary nominalism. This distinction is also put to important use in Burgess and Rosen 1997. Stanley (2001, p. 36) introduced the terminology of hermeneutic versus revolutionary fictionalism.

2. The characterizations are quoted, with minor modifications, from the abstract for Yablo’s Eastern APA presentation of his (2001), published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association.

3. One nice question here is how fictionalism fares, as an option for the antirealist, as compared to other alternatives to an outright error theory, such as Blackburn’s quasi-realism. See the exchange between David Lewis and Simon Blackburn in Kalderon 2005.