 In addition, though, and as Beardsley’s argument in effect reminds us, there might be important differences between non-literary and literary discourse, such that what holds (or doesn’t hold) in one doesn’t hold (or holds) in the other. The very nature of literature might itself make a difference. Two determinations are needed, then, one respecting the relevance or irrelevance of an authors’ intentions in non-literary discourse and one respecting whether the fact that a discourse is literary makes it importantly different from non-literary discourse as far as the relevance of authors’ intentions is concerned. In what follows, the issue concerning non-literary discourse will be discussed first and at length; the issue concerning literary discourse, second and much more briefly.