Hmm. To play the devil's advocate: isn't Plato's Socrates mostly a fictional creation? And doesn't Plato quote him as an authority (not to mention win all the debates)?https://twitter.com/HartmanAndrew/status/1124266964438929409 …
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Yup. There are absolutely discrepancies. (Aristophanes trolled S. by having him hanging in a basket eating lettuce.) But the earlier dialogues were intended to capture Socrates's views.
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But it is not as if Plato wrote some other texts wherein he quotes his own Socrates as an authority! If Plato's Socrates is a fiction, then Plato is rigorous about leaving him in his fictional frame.
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