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    It is not the case that The author's intention carries some evidential weight in textual interpretation.

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    • 1.A text's meaning is constituted by its linguistic and contextual properties alone, not by mental states causally prior to its production.
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    • 2.Wimsatt and Beardsley's intentional fallacy demonstrates that authorial intention is neither available nor desirable as a standard of interpretation.
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    • 3.Evidence that cannot in principle be verified through the text itself fails to meet the epistemic standards required for interpretive justification.
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    • 1.Meaning is a function of the conventions of the language system at the time of reception, not the private psychological states of the author.
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    • 2.Barthes's 'death of the author' establishes that once a text is produced, it enters a semiotic field where authorial intention is structurally irrelevant to signification.
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    • 1.The fact that author's intention is not always decisive does not entail that it carries no evidential weight at all.
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    • 2.In some cases, author's intention can tip the scales in favor of one reading over another.
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