Full Idea
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it bit by bit, plank by plank.
Gist of Idea
We aren't stuck with our native conceptual scheme; we can gradually change it
Source
Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 5)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.78
A Reaction
This is an interesting commitment to Strawson's 'revisionary' metaphysics, rather than its duller cousin 'descriptive' metaphysics. Good for Quine. Remember, though, Davidson's 'On the Very Idea of Conceptual Scheme'.