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I failed to understand the second part of your sentence...

Me too!

They could either be fantasy or sci-fi. It all depends on how they explain things to be.

Bonus points: all science fiction is fantasy. They just become "science" because they try so hard to make it look like they have a scientific base.

Hmm... maybe not? Sci-fi implies technology is so advanced its basically fiction. Unless the fantasy world has magical technology they probably wouldn't even understand or know of the devices in sci-fi stories.

If it's magic, that'd make it less likely. They probably have a tendency to rely on what they know more instead of exploring a new field.

I think you are confusing things: Science is the method. Scientific method. Another name for sci-fi is "speculative fiction." I'm not sure if you have heard of it. That is because people go into so many details when they are making their novels/worlds.

Since the genre is trying to explain "technology" itself, it makes sense that most of the time you are explaining things that do not exist. As Clarke has put. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." In sci-fi you still try to explain. But if it is magic, isn't it "fantasy" by that point?