Full Idea
If we are to give up the notion of sentence-synonymy as senseless, we must give up the notion of sentence-significance (of a sentence having meaning) as senseless too. But then perhaps we might as well give up the notion of sense.
Gist of Idea
If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense
Source
P Grice / P Strawson (In Defense of a Dogma [1956]), quoted by Alexander Miller - Philosophy of Language 4.2
Book Reference
Miller,Alexander: 'Philosophy of Language' [UCL Press 1998], p.120
A Reaction
This is very prescient. Nearly all American philosophers seem to embrace Quine's view of analyticity (the philosophical equivalent of Americans putting a man on the moon?), but have they digested the implications (which Quine later largely admits)?