system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
So honestly kind of a side note because it's only about one of the names you mentioned, but there actually has been a fair amount of debate about whether Socrates was real or just an invention of Plato and some of his peers. Basically the argument is because Socrates never wrote anything himself and everything we know about his beliefs was written by other philosophers.
gpt
Was going to say the same thing about Socrates. I have always been fascinated by this non existent existence of Socrates.