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    It is not the case that Traditional myths told to children are false on the whole, though they contain some truth

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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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    • 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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