In Arguing for Atheism, Robin LePoidevin makes the deflationist argument in chapter nine. The title of the chapter, and the main question he asks is: “Is ‘Does God exist?’ a real question?” What LePoidevin, with the help of Rudolf Carnap, is doing here is shifting the theism and atheism problem to a different focus. Instead of trying to prove and disprove God’s existence, LePoidevin asks whether we can even discuss that question in any meaningful way. LePoidevin makes his argument in this form: All questions of an ontological (questions of existence) are either instrumental or within an instrumental system. God by his nature is not in an instrumental system, so questions of his existence must be about an instrumental framework. Thus, God is neither a true or false proposition, but rather a framework for interpreting the world which we must decide to be either useful or not useful. LePoidevin’s point here is to deflate the whole debate over God’s existence with instrumentalism and reduce God to a non-descriptive model in the same way that mathematics or other abstractions are. We can speak of numbers and God, but we do so only as a way of interacting with the world more successfully and not in an existential sense.