Law (principle)

A principle is something, usually a rule or norm, that is part of the basis for something else. For example, the ethics of someone may be seen as a set of principles that the individual obeys. These principles form the basis for their ethics. Principles may also be introduced as pedagogy: laying down basics in a topic, in order later to proceed to more detailed developments. Identifying or defining a rule as a principle says that, for the purpose at hand, the principle will not be questioned or further derived. This is a convenient way ...

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Sturgeon's Law is referenced in Theodore Sturgeon's 1972 interview with David G. Hartwell (published in The New York Review of Science Fiction #7 and #8, March and April 1989): "Sturgeon's Law originally was 'Nothing is always absolutely so.' The other one was known as 'Sturgeon's Revelation.'" The first reference to Sturgeon's Revelation appears in the March 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction, where Sturgeon wrote: "I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science f ...

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Most laws of nature are statements of the obvious, restated in less obvious ways. Carried to an extreme, one could say, "Nature always compensates. If a man is born with one shorter leg, the other will invariably be longer to compensate." Sturgeon's Law is simply a restatement of Count Alfred Korzybski's basic principle of General Semantics, "the map is not the territory". As a science fiction reader as well as a science fiction writer, Sturgeon must have been aware of Korzybski's work, as A. E. van Vogt wrote a series of science fictio ...

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Sturgeon's Revelation meaning was explicitly detailed by Sturgeon himself. He made his original remarks in direct response to ill-conceived attacks against science fiction that used "the worst examples of the field for ammunition." Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, (and so on), are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crud is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same tre ...

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Sturgeon's law, Sturgeon's law - Origins, Sturgeon's law - Corollaries, Sturgeon's law - Alternative phrasing, Sturgeon's law - Interpretations, Sturgeon's law - Proving Sturgeon's Law

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