Go together like a horse and carriage

So, I was just doing some recreational reading about the analytic/synthetic distinction, and WHAT THE HECK (from the SEP):

"A particularly vivid way to feel the force of Quine's challenge is afforded by a recent case that came before the Ontario Supreme Court concerning whether laws that confined marriage to heterosexual couples violated the equal protection clause of the constitution (see Halpern et al 2001). The question was regarded as turning in part on the meaning of the word ‘marriage’, and each party to the dispute solicited affidavits from philosophers, one of whom claimed that there was a sense of the the word that was analytically tied to heterosexuality, the other that there wasn't."

On that note, check out this self-aware robot