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{{quote|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.}}
[[Keith Stanovich|Stanovich]], in his book ''The Robot's Rebellion'', refers to it as a ''Neurathian bootstrap'' and uses it as an analogy to the [[recursion|recursive]] nature of revising one's beliefs.<ref>Stanovich, Keith E. (2004-
{{quote|"We can conduct certain tests assuming that certain [[memeplex]]es (e.g., science, logic, rationality) are foundational, but at a later time we might want to bring these latter memeplexes into question too. The more comprehensively we have tested our interlocking memeplexes, the more confident we can be that we have not let a meme virus enter into our mindware..." (p. 181)}}
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