ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2015
heightened accounts of a kind of ‘reality’ which needn’t bear any resemblance to the
present one. But, literary works also bear certain common aspects such as theme, narrative and poetic effects that are too similar to ignore, and these similarities bear the
stamp of a human nature which must owe its presence to the common evolutionary
ancestry of the human species and its evolved traits. A fallibilist methodology will
help to avoid the twin pitfalls of reduction