 The first fully developed deflationary view is the one that Quine (1970 [1986, 10–2]) presents. Given his skepticism about the existence of propositions, Quine takes sentences to be the primary entities to which ‘is true’ may be applied, making the instances of (ES-sent) the equivalences that he accepts. He defines a category of sentence that he dubs “eternal”, viz., sentence types that have all their indexical/contextual factors specified, the tokens of which always have the same truth-values. It is for these sentences that Quine offers his disquotational view. As he (ibid., 12) puts it,