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Excursus 144 — On Authorial Intention and Intellectual Consequence

Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 09 – 13 What a thinker intends to accomplish and what the thinker’s work makes possible are not necessarily the same. This distinction is particularly important in the history of ideas, where concepts and arguments may acquire consequences very different from those intended by their authors. Gurvitch’s discussion ofContinue reading “Excursus 144 — On Authorial Intention and Intellectual Consequence”