 It is important to notice that even among deflationists the equivalence schema may be interpreted in different ways, and this is one way to distinguish different versions of deflationism from one another. One question about (ES) concerns the issue of what instances of the schema are assumed to be about (equivalently: to what the names in instances of (ES) are assumed to refer). According to one view, the instances of this schema are about sentences, where a name for a sentence can be formulated simply by putting quotation marks around it. In other words, for those who hold what might be called a sententialist version of deflationism, the equivalence schema has instances like (1):