 Finally, we must at least mention Quine’s (1951) important attack on the coherence of the analytic/synthetic distinction. He argued that there’s no clear way of distinguishing between analytic sentences and sentences that merely express very strongly accepted propositions. Many philosophers have found Quine’s argument persuasive, but the concept of analyticity has not been abandoned by all philosophers, indeed a majority still accept it (see entry on  the analytic/synthetic distinction).  We will make use of the of the analytic/synthetic distinction in this entry.