Sophacles
The scientific method, (1) Hypothesis (2) Theory (3) Principle/Law[1], permeates Western Ideology. One might say that which exists, exists only insofar as it is proved to exist -- in the Western World. "To be or not to be," as it were, is contingent upon what is calculable by the scientific method. That is to say, methodology within the Humanities is structured according to its counterparts in the "hard sciences," the scientific method. This relationship exists even in such seemingly polar ends of academia as Physics and English.
When a literary critic advances a theory, s/he does so in accordance with the aforementioned scientific method; the mathematical "proof" thus arrived is, for all intents and purposes, proved. It is not a controversial assertion to state that scientific methodology, itself based on mathematical principles, forms the underlying structure of literary analysis. Any attempt at "theory" outside of this structure, in Western Ideology, is universally dismissed......
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