A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.
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Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.Gilbert Ryle
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
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To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
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Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
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