'... against what do you check it in order to see if it corresponds
to just what was going on in the author's mind ...'
Doesn't this, in effect, do away with the usefulness of the idea
of 'intention' itself ? Not just a chap writing his last testament,
but also his brother coming at you with a knife & an unpleasant
expression on his face?
Which would seem, in turn, to do away with many other ideas:
responsibility, good will, ill will, etc, etc, ETC.
It's not actually how we live our lives. Not even, I imagine,
literary scholars.
Scottie B.
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