Flashcard sets with a 'intentional fallacy' term meaning '"this term is used by w.k. wimsatt & m.c. bearsley to describe the dubious critical practice of seeking to decipher a text's meaning by determining the author's intentions. for them, the author's intentions can never be properly determined, but even if they could, a text should in any case only be analyzed in its own terms, ignoring any extra-textual information."'

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