 It is often claimed, however, that deflationism has trouble meeting this adequacy condition. One way to bring out the problem here is by focusing on a particular articulation of the correspondence intuition, one favored by deflationists themselves (e.g., Horwich 1998a). According to this way of spelling it out, the intuition that a certain sentence or proposition “corresponds to the facts” is the intuition that the sentence or proposition is true because of how the world is; that is, the truth of the proposition is explained by some fact, which is usually external to the proposition itself. We might express this by saying that someone who endorses the correspondence intuition so understood would endorse: