Today's question is: How can something be true without being factually true? How is the truth of history different from the truth of myth?
Poems, song lyrics, fairy tales, children's stories, movie plots....all examples of things that can be incredibly, undoubtedly true without being factual. Take the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", for instance. Some of the characters hint at real people Harper Lee knew in her childhood, but the story is fictitious. And yet, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the truest books I've ever read. Things can be true without being factual.
It's how the truth of myth differs from the truth of history. The truth of history relies on empirical, provable facts. The truth of myth relies on notions that extend beyond facts.
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