To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

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.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

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.

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.