Full Idea
If we are sailors rebuilding our ship plank by plank on the open sea, then I know of some cargo we might want to jettison.
Gist of Idea
If we are rebuilding our ship at sea, we should jettison some cargo
Source
comment on Otto Neurath (Protocol Sentences [1932]) by George Boolos - Must We Believe in Set Theory? p.128
Book Reference
Boolos,George: 'Logic, Logic and Logic' [Harvard 1999], p.128
A Reaction
This may just be an assertion of Ockham's Razor, but the interest is that the Neurath image demands internal standards of economy etc, whereas reality itself seems to be a right mess.