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Old Aug 28th, 2004, 03:52 PM       
Well, I personally believe he existed.

I'll grant you Plato's dubious worth as a historian, aside from that however, the Sophist Debates illustrate a nuanced subtlety which Plato himself seems never to have demonstrated elsewhere in any of his works. Plato debated and pontificated in a straightforward, passionate and honest fashion, whereas Socrates -with the exception of his encounter with Phaedrus (which is more telling than many might think at first glance)- used the hastily uttered replies of his intellectual adversaries to defeat their own arguments by systemically illustrating inherent logical fallacies and sensical shortcomings.
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