 Some infer from this that reference could not possibly consist in correspondences between mental symbols and objects in the world. For them all that makes ‘elephant’ refer to elephants is that our language contains the word ‘elephant’. This is Deflationism about reference. Vann McGee presents a strong case for inscrutability on a deflationary view of reference, one that is grounded in a “… peculiarly egocentric conception of semantics—questions of others’ meanings are settled by asking what I mean by the words of my language” [McGee 2015].