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    Wimsatt and Beardsley's intentional fallacy demonstrates ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The author's intention carries some evidential weight in textual interpretation.

    Wimsatt and Beardsley's intentional fallacy demonstrates that authorial intention is neither available nor desirable as a standard of interpretation.

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    • 1.Texts acquire meanings through cultural circulation that transcend what authors consciously intended at composition.
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    • 2.Privileging authorial intention unfairly restricts valid interpretations available to readers engaging the actual text.
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    • 3.Authors lack reliable access to their own unconscious influences, making intention an unstable interpretive foundation.
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    • 1.Interpreting a text requires some standard to distinguish between meaning and arbitrary projection; intent provides that boundary.
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    • 2.Understanding what an author intended is often recoverable through historical evidence and remains epistemically accessible.
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    • 3.Rejecting intentionality altogether undermines literary evaluation and makes plagiarism or misquotation philosophically incoherent.
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