 While deflationism can be developed in different ways, it is possible to isolate some central themes emphasized by most philosophers who think of themselves as deflationists. These shared themes pertain to endorsing a kind of metaphysical parsimony and positing a “deflated” role for what we can call the alethic locutions (most centrally, the expressions ‘true’ and ‘false’) in the instances of what is often called truth-talk. In this section, we will isolate three of these themes. The first, and perhaps most overarching, one has already been mentioned: According to deflationists, there is some strong equivalence between a statement like ‘snow is white’ and a statement like “‘snow is white’ is true,” and this is all that can significantly be said about that application of the notion of truth.