 Lange tries to steer a middle course, between “the metaphysicians’ account” and the “bare” materialism he rejects in the History of Materialism. This leads him to reject Hegelian idealism (see above), but also to put into question some elements even of the Kantian system. Seventy-four years before the publication of Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Lange explicitly rejects the analytic-synthetic distinction: