The subtitle of the paper might be rewritten to read, Why Intention-Free Identification of Something as a Text Isn’t Possible; for in this and other essays, Alexander, along with other intentionalists, argues not simply that you can’t interpret the text without recourse to a governing intention, but there is no text until a specification of an intention is in place.In a subsection entitled, Texts Cannot Declare that they are Texts, Alexander and his co-author, Emily Sherwin,… [read post]