To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
More Quotes from 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.Gilbert Ryle
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle
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.
Gilbert Ryle
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
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
Gilbert Ryle
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Facts QuotesI could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
Harold Pinter
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
George Michael
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood