 The first thing to say regarding this objection is that, even if deflationism were inconsistent with truth-conditional theories of meaning, this would not automatically constitute an objection to deflationism. After all, there are alternative theories of meaning available, and most deflationists reject truth-conditional semantics in favor of some “truth-free” alternative. The main alternatives available include Brandom’s (1994) inferentialism, developed following  Wilfrid Sellars  (1974, 1979); Horwich’s (1998b) use-theory of meaning, inspired by Wittgenstein 1953; and Field’s (1994a, 2001b) computational-role + indication-relations account. There is, however, a lot of work to be done before any of these theories can be regarded as adequate. Devitt 2001 makes this point in rejecting all of these alternative approaches to meaning, claiming that the only viable approach is (referential/)truth-conditional semantics.