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There's a word for this (a type of fallacy?). I learned it in college, but have since forgotten.
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You are speaking of ascribing motives on insufficient evidence?
Isaac Asimov: It was interesting to hear your opinions of my work, Dr., but when I wrote that book I had nothing of the sort in mind.
English Professor: I'm pleased to meet you Dr. Asimov. I've always been a big fan of your work, but, tell me, just because you wrote it what makes you think you have any idea what it's about?
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tell me, just because you wrote it what makes you think you have any idea what it's about?No-one's as smart as they think, Faldage. There is stuff going on beneath the surface only an english professor, or a psychoanalyst, could plumb. An artist should leave his best thinking up to his Muse. 
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'Authorial Intent'?
And the fallacy, Anna? (real quetion)
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Derrida once came to the New School to give a guest seminar as part of his evaluation for a position there. A student asked him a question about one of the articles with which 'all' grad students are familiar but which M. Derrida couldn't remember clearly (as I cannot at all). Instead of answering the question, Derrida denied ever having said whatever it was that was being attributed to him. Whereupon, one of the professors put the text in front of him and showed him the line...Derrida read for a moment, looked up, and said, charmingly, "Obviously, I didn't mean that."
Needless to say, he got the job.
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Hmm, I can't think of it. Could be arguing from authority, but that doesn't seem right. Since even when an author gives his intent in plain text, he could be delusional or ignorant or lying.
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Something like mental telepathy?
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It's called telementation. It's supposed to be what happens when two people speak with one another.
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It's supposed to be what happens when two people speak with one another.
Supposed by whom?
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Since even when an author gives his intent in plain text, he could be delusional or ignorant or lying.Or he might just be trying to make some sense out it all ... just like the rest of us, jheem.
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[gulp] Onelook gave a couple; is one of them it, Anna?
Words and phrases matching your pattern:
(We're restricting the list to terms we think are related to Author intent, and sorting by relatedness.)
1. iris
2. exposition
3. omnibus
4. preface
5. writing
6. fantasia
7. twist
8. cause
9. demogorgon
10. epigraph
11. enos
12. comment
13. punctuation
14. go ask alice
15. howard families
16. larry dixon
17. riverworld
18. choke (novel)
19. judith a. reisman
20. roe messner
21. intense
22. rhetorical device
23. suidas
24. tan
25. automatic writing
26. hosea
27. intentional fallacy
28. haggai
29. interpolate
30. piet hein (denmark)
31. andreas capellanus
32. animus nocendi
33. heinrich christian boie
34. montagu butler library
35. magnum opus
36. oda sakunosuke
37. anomalous operation
38. hedonistic imperative
39. max and ruby
40. factory method pattern
41. deconstruction
42. elegant variation
43. viridian design movement
44. frame tale
45. invent
46. entre deux guerres
47. sigil
48. write
49. ghost
50. classic
51. style
52. view
53. lewis
54. hack
55. burgess
56. pastiche
57. holograph
58. tolstoy
59. penman
60. autograph
61. tragedian
62. coauthor
63. dramatist
64. juvenilia
65. allonym
66. rudyard kipling
67. lewis carroll
68. anonymous
69. memoir
70. pseudonym
71. mother goose
72. pen name
73. voltaire
74. james
75. kipling
76. marquis de sade
77. henry david thoreau
78. shaw
79. conan doyle
80. count lev nikolayevitch tolstoy
81. ernest hemingway
82. george bernard shaw
83. grimm
84. henry james
85. leo tolstoy
86. miguel de cervantes
87. quote
88. franz kafka
89. psalmist
90. sir arthur conan doyle
91. andersen
92. arthur conan doyle
93. authoress
94. corpus
95. hans christian andersen
96. hippocrates
97. lexicographer
98. librettist
99. ghostwrite
100. john updike
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