 Ricoeur maintains, however, that the referential function of narrative is not simply to assert something about the world but has implications for ethical and political life. In fiction, narrative emplotment not only helps us evaluate the meaning of human actions, but, moreover, contributes to the creation of “the horizon of a new relating that we may call a world” (Ricoeur, “On Interpretation,” 10; see also Ricoeur, “Imagination in Discourse and Action”). In so doing, fiction refers to possibilities of reality that can orient our agency and contribute to our efforts to reshape reality.