 Despite his many books and articles, Beardsley is probably best known for his very first article in aesthetics. In “The Intentional Fallacy”, a paper co-written with William K. Wimsatt and published in 1946, he argued against the neo-Romantic view that a work of art means what the artist says it means, or what he intends it to mean. Since many pens have run dry in writing about—and in the great majority of cases attacking—The Intentional Fallacy, another pen will run dry in discussing it below.