  Not all philosophers have agreed that rights can be fully analysed. White (1984), for example, argued that the task is impossible because the concept of a right is as basic as any of the others, such as duty, liberty, power, etc (or any set of them) into which it is usually analysed. He agreed, however, that rights can in part be explained by reference to such concepts. White’s approach, based largely on close linguistic analysis, has remained something of a minority one.