Full Idea
Quine's attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction sought to contract, if not to empty, the class of truths that are called necessary.
Gist of Idea
Quine's attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction undermined necessary truths
Source
report of Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953]) by Sydney Shoemaker - Causal and Metaphysical Necessity I
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.407
A Reaction
The thought was that absolutely everything, including, for example, basic logic, became potentially revisable. See the last section of Quine's paper.