[MD] Epistemological metaphors

[John Carl]

Nice, Steve.  It rang a bell with me as it was the next thing I read after
posting to Platt my concern that the 4th level is open-ended and infinitely
evolving toward DQ.  There is no place you can say, "Here conceptualization
ceases".

Like the boat, we're always rebuilding.

John

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Steven Peterson
<peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I can't believe I had never heard about Neurath's boat before. Just
> came across this:
> "We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship
> but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is
> taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest
> of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams
> and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by
> gradual reconstruction."
>
> I think it is my favorite epistemological metaphor. What's yours?
>
> Best,
> Steve
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