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==Different versions==
Neurath used the simile in several occasions,<ref name=ONPSP/><ref name=antispengler>{{cite book |last=Neurath |first=Otto |titlechapter=Anti-Spengler |year=1921 |doi=10.1007/978-94-010-2525-6_6 |isbn=978-90-277-0259-3 |attitle=Vienna Circle Collection vol. 1: ''Empiricism and Sociology'' (1973)}}</ref> the first being in Neurath's text ''"Problems in War Economics''". In "Anti-Spengler" Neurath wrote:
 
{{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.}}