If the locus of aesthetic meaning is the reader's active construction from signifying structures, then privileging the artist's original mode of being is a category error that mislocates where aesthetic experience occurs.

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Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language): A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
Mode of being(Used by James to characterize the ontological status of relations): A way a thing is that does not differ from the thing so as to constitute another essence or thing
aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics): A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
aesthetic meaning(as used in aesthetics): The significance, beauty, or emotional impact that we get from experiencing art, music, literature, or other creative works.
locus(Buddhist atomic theory critique): The spatial location occupied by an atom; the argument treats locus as exclusive — one atom's locus cannot simultaneously be the locus of another distinct atom.
mislocates(as used in this philosophical argument): Puts something in the wrong place, position, or context; here, it means wrongly identifying where aesthetic experience actually happens.
privileging(as used in philosophy and criticism): Treating something as more important, valuable, or worthy of attention than other things.
signifying structures(as used in literary and art theory): The organized patterns in a work of art (like words, colors, sounds, or symbols) that carry meaning and communicate ideas to us.

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