The aim of this paper is to show how a certain conception of truth, known as deflationism, casts a distinctive light on representation and thereby helps us to discern the nature of meaning. So I will proceed in three stages. First I will say what I think is the essence of the deflationary perspective on truth, outlining the evidence in favor of adopting it. Second I will show, from that perspective, how the socalled 'problem of aboutness' should be approached. And third I will indicate how this approach takes us towards a use theory of meaning. The basic thesis of deflationism, as I see it, is that the disquotation schema