We are like sailors who must repair their ship on the high seas, without ever having a chance to take it apart at the dock and build it anew from the best parts.The analogy seems to me suitable for many efforts less exalted than philosophy.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Sailors
The epigraph to W.V.O. Quine's Word and Object is from Otto Neurath. Quine gives it in German; in English it is roughly
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