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Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Gilbert Ryle

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

Allocate Explode Fact
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
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Animal Ghost Himself Machine Mammal Man
Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
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Goodness Myth Theory
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine, maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
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Body Ghost Machine Mental Mindset Movement Process Reason
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
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Category Philosophy Replacement
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
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Chronicle Explain Record
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers
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Dream Explore Finding Path Pavement
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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Himself Philosophy View Word
The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.
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Dogma Ghost Machine
To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.
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Darkness Eyes Illumination Mindset Person Photograph See Surround World
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
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Absolute Body Destiny Meet Solitude Soul
In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
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Hunter Philosophy Search Self
My today’s self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.
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Hold Myself Try
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.
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Ghost Machine Man Need
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. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
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Belong Fact Fairy Presentation Story

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