Some notes on neurath's ship and quine's sailors

Abstract

This paper is intended as a set of notes on the philosophical use of meta-phors, similes, analogies, and the like (Part I), the analysis of Neurath-Quine’s famous nautical metaphor (Part II), and a discussion of Quine’s views concerning the revisability of beliefs, common sense convictions, and the Continuity Thesis (Part III).