 And in addition to “The Intentional Fallacy”, there’s also the lesser known and lesser discussed “The Affective Fallacy”. In a paper bearing that name (1949), also co-written with William Wimsatt, Beardsley argued that a person’s affective responses to a work of art are irrelevant to its descriptive, interpretive, and evaluative properties. If we want to know what properties a work has, we should look at the work, not those looking at the work.