 The deflationary approach to truth has seemed to be inconsistent with the gap, and this has been thought by some (e.g., Dummett 1959 [1978, 4] and Holton 2000) to be an objection. The reason for the apparent inconsistency flows from a natural way to extend the deflationary approach from truth to falsity. The most natural thing for a deflationist to do is to introduce a falsity schema like: