 One problem many have had with Quine’s argument is about how to explain the appearance of the analytic. It just seems an empirical fact that most people would spontaneously distinguish our original two sets of sentences (§1) by saying that sentences of the second set, such as “All pediatricians are doctors for children” are “true by definition,” or could be known to be true just by knowing the meanings of the constituent words. Moreover, they might agree about an indefinite number of further examples, e.g., that ophthalmologists are eye doctors, grandfathers are parents of parents, sauntering a kind of movement, pain and beliefs mental states, and promising an intentional act. Again, as Grice and Strawson (1956) and Putnam (1965 [1975]) stressed, it’s implausible to suppose that there’s nothing people are getting at in these judgments.