Wednesday, July 08, 2020

A layer model of myth

Myth is part of a cloud of related concepts, each with a huge academic literature. As a first approximation, I think of them as arranged in two fuzzy and intersecting layers, with the lower-level concepts aggregating into the higher-level ones.

Very roughly, I think of each concept at the higher layer being built up out of instances of the concept at the corresponding lower layer.

Higher
  1. Social imaginary 
  2. Belief system
  3. Paradigm
  4. Worldview
  5. Ideology

Lower
  1. Myth
  2. Belief
  3. Theory
  4. Mind-set
  5. Philosophy



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