Full Idea
Quine's attack argues against the Fregean attempt to define 'analyticity' in terms of synonymy - where analytical truths are logical truths ('unmarried men are unmarried'), or become logical truths by synonymous replacement ('bachelors are unmarried').
Gist of Idea
Quine attacks the Fregean idea that we can define analyticity through synonyous substitution
Source
report of Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953]) by Amie L. Thomasson - Ordinary Objects 02.1
Book Reference
Thomasson,Amie L.: 'Ordinary Objects' [OUP 2010], p.30
A Reaction
This is a very helpful explanation of what is going on in Quine. Why won't philosophers explain clearly what they are attacking, before they attack it?