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==Proposed solutions== Four solutions elucidated by Nails were proposed early in the history of the Socratic problem and are still relevant, even though each still poses problems today:<ref name="Nails, Debra">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/socratic-problem.html |author=Nails, Debra |article=Early attempts to solve the Socratic problem |series=Supplement to ‘Socrates’ |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=Spring 2014 |editor=Zalta, Edward N. |publisher=Stanford University|df=dmy-all}}</ref> # Socrates is the individual whose qualities exhibited in Plato’s writings are corroborated by Aristophanes and Xenophon. # Socrates is he who claims “to possess no wisdom” but still participates in exercises with the aim of gaining understanding. # Socrates is the [individual named] Socrates who appears in Plato’s earliest dialogues. # The real Socrates is the one who turns from a ''pre-Socratic'' interest in nature to ethics, instead.
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