Full Idea
One dogma of empiricism is that there is some fundamental cleavage between truths that are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of facts, and truths which are synthetic, or grounded in fact.
Gist of Idea
Empiricism makes a basic distinction between truths based or not based on facts
Source
Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.20)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.20