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He is actually considered as the Father of Western Philosophy. He greatly influenced Plato and he conceptualized the Socratic method where a question will be answered by another question, which will make the original questioner think of the answer themselves to arrive at their own answer.

But the father of philosophy or the one who invented philosophy is Thales and not Socrates

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