Affective Fallacy and Intentional Fallacy
Affective Fallacy Definition: The term “Affective Fallacy” was coined by W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley in 1949 after publishing an article named ‘The Affective Fallacy’. The two critics wrote in reaction to the notion of I. A. Richards, who believed that a poem could be evaluated by the psychological responses it incites in […]
