 But even if an internal/external distinction of some sort is well-nigh necessary, it’s probably best not to couch it in exactly those terms. The real issue isn’t so much what’s in and what’s out as what’s relevant and what’s not. Beardsley’s terminology not only obscures that fact but skews the true substantive issue: strongly suggested by the very use of the terms “internal” and “external” is that relevant information is internal to a work, that is, propositions whose subject terms refer to the work or part of the work and whose predicate terms refer to properties discernible by experiencing the work; and irrelevant information is external to a work, that is, propositions whose subject terms refer to something other than the work or part of the work, or to properties not discernible by experiencing the work.