 The question of why we have the concept of truth allows us to introduce a third central theme in deflationism, which is an emphasis not merely on the property of truth but on the concept of truth, or, equivalently for present purposes, on the word ‘true’ (cf. Leeds 1978). Far from supposing that there is no point having the concept of truth, deflationists are usually at pains to point out that anyone who has the concept of truth is in possession of a very useful concept indeed; in particular, anyone who has this concept is in a position to express generalizations that would otherwise require non-standard logical devices, such as sentential variables and quantifiers for them.