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This paper seeks to observe the foundation of ancient Greek philosophy in its relationship with the notions of mythos and logos. It is generally accepted that the history of Western philosophy in its initiatory phase took the format of progress “from mythos to logos,” an idea largely attributable to Wilhelm Nestle's problematic Vom Mythos Zum Logos(1940), which to my mind leaves much to be desired. This framework holds Homeros and Hesiodos totally different from Socrates and Plato, giving rise to the bifurcation of mythos and logos. Misunderstandings come to light when one reaches the conclusion that in the ancient Greek society the words mythos and logos referred respectively to established authoritative speech and emergent reasonable discourse or theory that neither of them really had anything to do with the fictional properties, or the degree of fictionality, of the messages under consideration.