 In response to the difficulties with Inferentialism Contessa submits that “it is not clear why we should adopt a deflationary attitude from the start” (2007: 50) and provides a “interpretational account” of scientific representation that is inspired by Suárez’s account, but without being deflationary. Contessa introduces the notion of an interpretation of a model, in terms of its target system, as a necessary and sufficient condition on epistemic representation (see also Ducheyne 2012 for a related account):