 Understood in this way, the “Conservativeness Argument” (henceforth, \(CA)\) is a variant of the objection considered in Section 4.1, claiming that truth plays an explanatory role that deflationism cannot accommodate. There are several deflationary responses to the CA. Field (1999) argues that the worries that arise from the claim that deflationists are in violation of explanatory conservativeness is unfounded. He (ibid., 537) appeals to the expressive role of the truth predicate and maintains that deflationists are committed to a form of “explanatory conservativeness” only insofar as there are no explanations in which the truth predicate is not playing its generalizing role. As a result, he (ibid.) notes that “any use of ‘true’ in explanations which derives solely from its role as a device of generalization should be perfectly acceptable”. For responses to Field, see Horsten 2011 (61) and Halbach 2011 (315–6).