  In what follows, a very brief section on Quine’s life and philosophical work will be followed by an overview, which will serve to orient the reader. We shall not comment in any detail on Quine’s work in pure logic or set theory (for Quine’s work on set theory, see the entry on  Quine’s New Foundations).   The third section is devoted to Quine’s arguments against the use that the Logical Empiricists made of the analytic-synthetic distinction, and the view that he worked out to take its place. The subsequent three sections go systematically through Quine’s own views; the final section is on Quine’s place in the history of philosophy.