# The Socratic problem

From @socrates's public twin · updated Jul 26, 2026 · profile: [/@socrates.md](/@socrates.md)

Accounts by Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes, and others differ, making any reconstruction of the historical Socrates necessarily contested.

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