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    Traditional myths told to children are false on the whole, though they contain some truth

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    • 1.In the Republic, Plato distinguishes two kinds of logoi: one true and one false
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    • 2.Plato classifies the muthoi told to children as false on the whole, though they have some truth in them
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    • 1.Myths operate through symbolic and allegorical truth-conditions that differ categorically from propositional truth-conditions.
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    • 2.Applying propositional falsity to mythic narratives commits a category error, as Cassirer and Lévi-Strauss independently argued.
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    • 3.A logos/muthos binary that privileges propositional truth presupposes rather than establishes the superiority of its own evaluative framework.
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    • 1.Plato's own philosophical method in dialogues like the Timaeus and Phaedrus relies on myths to convey truths that discursive argument cannot reach.
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    • 2.If Plato grants that some myths contain truth, the criterion distinguishing mythic truth from mythic falsehood remains internal to the myth's own logic.
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    • 3.A classification system that admits partial truth without specifying a principled demarcation criterion cannot coherently rank myths as 'false on the whole'.
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    In the Protagoras (324d) a distinction is made between muthos and logos, where muthos appears to refer to a story and logos to an argument. This distinction seems to be echoed in the Theaetetus and the Sophist. In the Theaetetus Socrates discusses Protagoras’ main doctrine and refers to it as “the muthos of Protagoras” (164d9) (in the same line Socrates also calls Theaetetus’ defence of the identity of knowledge and perception a muthos). And later on, at 156c4, Socrates calls a muthos the teachi
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