⁵ A more radical interpretation would claim that Plato’s embedding philosophy-cum-fantastical stories into realistic stories was not supposed to mean that story-telling is an extension of philosophical discourse, but that human knowledge is fundamentally ‘fictional’, i.e. not entirely reliable. Yet Plato carefully crafted his dialogues so that his readers would not know whether he believed that myth is an extension of philosophical argument or an in-built dimension of human reason that cannot be left out, not even in philosophical arguments.