 This is how the use of the truth predicate in (9) gives us the content of Jones’s belief. And the important point for deflationists is that we could not have stated the content of this belief unless we had the concept of truth (the expression ‘true’). In fact, for most deflationists, it is this feature of the concept of truth – its role in the formation of these sorts of generalizations – that explains why we have a concept of truth at all. This is, as it is often put, the raison d’être of the concept of truth (cf. Field 1994a and Horwich 1998a).