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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2308742" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Point it out (or don't) all you want- <strong>I disagree</strong>. A work is always part of a genre, even if it is the only representative of the genre to exist. That is, a work is always a subset of a genre, even if it is unique. (If it is truly unique, it forms a genre unto itself.) A property held by a member of the subset is also held as a property of the group, even if is the only member of the group to have that property.</p><p></p><p>Example: 0 (Zero) belongs to the set of all numbers. It is neither positive nor negative, and when divided by itself, does not equal 1. The set of all numbers can be said to have at least one member that is neither positive nor negative. It can also be said to have at least one member that can be divided by itself and not result in the number 1. I can make those statements without fear of contradiction, even without awareness of any other member of the set.</p><p></p><p>Likewise, once I show a single SF work with a certain characteristic, that characteristic exists within the set of all SF. It may be the only work within SF with that property, but that doesn't matter. This holds true for any other literary form- once any work within the genre is identified to have a particular property, it is a property that exists within that set, though not neccessarily within each or even any other work in that genre.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2308742, member: 19675"] Point it out (or don't) all you want- [B]I disagree[/B]. A work is always part of a genre, even if it is the only representative of the genre to exist. That is, a work is always a subset of a genre, even if it is unique. (If it is truly unique, it forms a genre unto itself.) A property held by a member of the subset is also held as a property of the group, even if is the only member of the group to have that property. Example: 0 (Zero) belongs to the set of all numbers. It is neither positive nor negative, and when divided by itself, does not equal 1. The set of all numbers can be said to have at least one member that is neither positive nor negative. It can also be said to have at least one member that can be divided by itself and not result in the number 1. I can make those statements without fear of contradiction, even without awareness of any other member of the set. Likewise, once I show a single SF work with a certain characteristic, that characteristic exists within the set of all SF. It may be the only work within SF with that property, but that doesn't matter. This holds true for any other literary form- once any work within the genre is identified to have a particular property, it is a property that exists within that set, though not neccessarily within each or even any other work in that genre. [/QUOTE]
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