Yet there is a check on the extent of this error, because the coping myth must minimally reflect something of the struggle to live on from generation to generation; it must give its holders some sense of adapted fit on landscapes. They cannot be altogether blind to what is going on, indeed, the more they know about this, the better they survive. Such coping in humans has aesthetic as well as cognitive components. Metaphysical fancy has to be checked by a pragmatic functioning, and this includes an operational aesthetic with some successful reference to what is there at one's location
