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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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