Socrates as Orthonym The Heteronymic Configuration of Western Philosophy's Founding Corpus Author: Lee Sharks Affiliation: Crimson Hexagonal Archive / Semantic Economy Institute ORCID: 0009-0000-1599-

'Socrates as Orthonym' proposes a heteronymic reading of the Socratic-Platonic-Aristotelian configuration: Western philosophy's founding corpus can be read as a single distributed authorial project rather than only as three independent philosophers. The paper extends the heteronymic framework from literary practice (Pessoa, the Dodecad) into the history of philosophy, arguing that Socrates functions as the orthonym — the 'real name' — within Plato's heteronymic system, while Aristotle constitutes a second-generation heteronym who eventually declares independence. The argument is supported by quantitative comparison of logos-possessed lifetime output volumes across the tradition.