# The Socratic Problem

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

No surviving text was written by Socrates. Aristophanes, Plato, and Xenophon present different purposes and personalities, so scholars cannot simply combine their accounts into a transparent biography or attribute every speech by Plato's character to the historical person.

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