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Originally Posted by Giggleton
We are at the end of the post-modern era, and are glimpsing the new era, to which we have yet to name.
In the postmodern times, it did not matter what purpose a work was intended to convey by its creator, all that mattered was what the interpreter gained from the work. In the new era...
EVERYTHING IS INSTRUCTIVE IF YOU ARE WILLING.
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Well, I really haven't given a definition of knowledge, but I do think that it has to be objective. In other words, for something to be considered knowledge it has to be accessible to everyone. A law of physics is knowledge because it does not change according to a person's experiences. In the same way you could say that their were clear lessons that didactic fiction meant to teach to all its readers, which is why it can be considered a form of knowledge or a means of conveying knowledge. You can take things out of a work of didactic fiction that the author never intended; you can analyze the work for its historical context or its biases or whatever it revealed about its times, but that is interpretation, which is not quite the same as knowledge, although it can lead to the creation of knowledge.