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Intention, Authorship and Artistic Realism

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This chapter explores three overlapping topics concerning artistic properties: their intentional character, and the role of their histories of production, and of their response-reliance, in our understanding of them. For, as we saw (Section 2.1), meaning has conceptual connections to intending. And artistic properties bring with them (artistic) meaning. This enquiry grants methodological points made previously. In particular, the defeasible character of any claims made is recognized, and that they are not exceptionless, and cohere with our occasion-sensitive account of meaning and truth, in applying to this work, in this context, with this question asked or at issue.

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McFee, G. (2011). Intention, Authorship and Artistic Realism. In: Artistic Judgement. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0031-4_4

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