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When science or technology is a major theme in a work is it automatically classified as science fiction, and has there been any notable non-philosophical literature which handled the theme of scientific progress positively?
Do writers of literary fiction tend to be suspicious of empiricism?
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do you mean a positive view of scientific progress?
it's difficult to speak for writers of literary fiction at large, but empiricism has a tendency to bar imagination of the average man, or the man not intellectually inclined. it acts as a barrier when employed by the malicious. empricism in the humanities is anathema because (i hate to say it) a sense of equality has pervaded the philosophy of the arts. if one man is greater at expression, it tends to invalidate the expression of other men. competition in what has suddenly become an institutional enterprise is something of a faux pas. there is hope in individualism and grassroots expression, however. i think there are plenty of empirically inclined authors out there ready to show superiority. i think society as we know it inherently respects this superiority, despite its regrets individually. individuality in this sense has a duality of burden and praise.
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