An analytic confidence rating pairs with a statement using a word of estimative probability to form a complete analytic statement.

Quine begins by making a distinction between two different classes of analytic statements.

It also becomes impossible to draw a line between synthetic statements, which depend on experience, and analytic statements, that hold come what may.

These are analytic, necessary statements that are knowable a priori.

To deny the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements meant that nothing could be known independent of experience.

Quine states: "But for all its a priori reasonableness, a boundary between analytic and synthetic statements simply has not been drawn.

It is a type of analytic statement.

Logical truths, being analytic statements, do not contain any information about any matters of fact.

Other than logical truths, there is also a second class of analytic statements, typified by "No bachelor is married."

According to Ayer, analytic statements are tautologies.