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    The intentionalist who relies only on a causal connection between intention and meaning should not be satisfied with the causal-inductive relation, because it implies that the artist's intentions are extrinsic to and independent of the meaning of the work.

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    • 1.Grice's meaning-nn theory shows that speaker meaning is constitutively tied to communicative intentions, not merely caused by them.
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    • 2.If linguistic meaning is constitutively dependent on intention, then a purely causal account misrepresents the intentionality-meaning relation.
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    • 3.A causal-inductive link treats intentions as external evidence for meaning, contradicting the constitutive role Gricean theory assigns them.
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    • 1.Anscombe's account of intentional action shows that intentions are internal to the description of an action, not merely antecedent causes of it.
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    • 2.Artistic meaning, understood as a species of intentional action, inherits this internal relation between intention and the act's identity.
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    • 3.Therefore a causal-inductive model misclassifies artistic intention as extrinsic when it is partly constitutive of what the work means.
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    • 1.The causal-inductive argument presupposes that the meaning of the work is identifiable independently of the artist's intentions.
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    • 2.If the meaning of the work is identifiable independently of intentions, then intentions are extrinsic to and independent of meaning.
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    • 3.An intentionalist position is undermined if intentions are shown to be extrinsic to and independent of meaning.
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    Key Terms

    Causal connection(how intention relates to meaning)
    A relationship where one thing directly causes or brings about another thing.
    Causal-inductive relation(how one might link intention to artistic meaning)
    A type of cause-and-effect connection where you look at patterns of causes and effects to figure out rules (inductive reasoning).
    Extrinsic(whether the artist's intentions are separate from the work itself)
    Coming from outside something; not part of its core nature or identity.
    Intrinsic(describing the kind of continuities that ground identity)
    Something that belongs to or is part of something by its very nature, rather than coming from outside or being relational.
    Meaning (of a work)(what the statement is discussing in relation to artist intention)
    What a piece of art communicates, expresses, or represents to an audience.
    intention(as used in philosophy of language)
    A deliberate plan or purpose that someone has in mind when they do something.
    intentionalist(Philosophy of art and interpretation theory.)
    One who holds that an artist's intentions are relevant to, or determinative of, the meaning of the artist's work.

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    What all this has to do with the intentional fallacy is this. The intentionalist shouldn’t claim that (1) entails (2), for that claim is subject to the numerous counterarguments that Beardsley makes full use of. But the anti-intentionalist, such as Beardsley, shouldn’t claim that there’s “no logical relation” between (1) and (2), for there clearly is, even on his own showing, a causally grounded, empirically based, standard inductive relation between the two. The intentionalist shouldn’t rejoice
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