Usually means: Misattributing meaning to author's intent.
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  1. intentional fallacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. intentional fallacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intentional fallacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intentional fallacy: Dictionary.com
  5. Intentional Fallacy, Intentional fallacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. intentional fallacy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. intentional fallacy: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (intentional fallacy)

noun:  The idea that an author's intentions should constrain the ways in which a text is properly interpreted, when regarded as an informal fallacy.

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