³⁸ Weiss denies this, stressing that philosophy for Socrates was an ongoing, never-ending quest. Knowledge will never be attained. This leads her to a controversial interpretation of the dialogue: since at face value the theory of recollection is a theory of the recovery of knowledge, Weiss has to deny that the theory is more than a fantastic myth, a ‘sham doctrine’ (see also W. S. Cobb, ‘Anamnesis: Platonic Doctrine or Sophistic Absurdity?’, Dialogue, 12 (1973), 604–28); since the episode with the slave is supposed to illustrate the process of recollection, she has to deny that it is more than a geometry lesson; since Plato says at 98a that true belief can be converted into knowledge (and this is said to be relevant to the slave too), Weiss has to deny the obvious meaning of these words.