Willmatt And Beardsley

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In Willmatt and Beardsley’s ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ critical essay they believe that no matter if an author declares that their work possesses some sort of intention, it could actually be that it when their work has been read, it could actually mean something else as to what they wanted their readers to think because of the different judgements readers come to about their work. Although words come from somewhere in what Professor Stoll suggests by stating in the essay that words ‘come out of a head, not out of a hat.’ Which suggests that the words come from the author but it does not mean there is a reason as to why they wrote their work. Wilmatt and Beardsley are arguing that the meaning of the work is not what the author had in mind but