 A promising strategy for replying to these latter problems, as well as to Quine’s challenge in a way that might even begin to provide what the neo-Cartesian wants, can be found in a proposal of Paul Horwich (1998, 2005). He emphasizes how the meaning properties of a term are the ones that play a “basic explanatory role” with regard to the use of a term generally, the ones ultimately in virtue of which a term is used with that meaning. For example, the use of “red” to refer to the color of blood, roses, stop signs, etc,. is arguably explained by its use to refer to certain apparent colors in good light, but not vice versa: the latter use is “basic” to all the other uses. Similarly, uses of “and” explanatorily depend upon its basic use in inferences to and from the sentences it conjoins, and number terms to items in a sequence respecting Peano’s axioms (Horwich, 1998:45,129; see also Devitt 1996, 2002 for a similar proposal).