 As this quote suggests, Quine sees Tarski’s formal work on defining truth predicates for formalized languages and his criterion of adequacy for doing so as underwriting a disquotational analysis of the truth predicate. This makes Quine’s view a different kind of position-\(\mathbf{A}\) account, since he takes the left-hand side of each instance of (ES-sent) to be, as we will put it (since Quine rejects the whole idea of meaning and meaning equivalence), something like a mere syntactic variant of the right-hand side. This also means that Quine’s version of deflationism departs from inflationism by rejecting the latter’s presupposition that truth predicates function to describe the entities they get applied to, the way that other predicates, such as ‘is metal’, do.