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intentional fallacy

Syllabification: (in·ten·tion·al fal·la·cy)
Definition of intentional fallacy

noun

(the intentional fallacy)
  • (in literary theory) the fallacy of basing an assessment of a work on the author’s intention rather than on one’s response to the actual work.

intentional fallacy in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of intentional fallacy in the British & World English dictionary