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by empath-nirvana 959 days ago
"Plato" absolutely does not say the story is true. "Plato" almost never spoke in his dialogues and you can't assume that anything that anyone says in one of his dialogues accords with his own beliefs, although frequently the closest speaker to Plato's beliefs is Socrates.

The story of Atlantis is told by Critias, who heard the story second hand.