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hypothetical intentionalism: a standalone construct

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Aesthetics

view that a text means what an ideal audience would best hypothesize its author intended, rather than what the author actually intended.

In aesthetics, hypothetical intentionalism refers to view that a text means what an ideal audience would best hypothesize its author intended, rather than what the author actually intended. This meaning comes from Tolhurst (1979) in The British Journal of Aesthetics.[1]

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actual intentionalism1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct audience3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs ideal2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Tolhurst, W. E. (1979). On What a Text Is and How It Means. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 19(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/19.1.3

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