Intro to Semiotics Part 1: Donald Trump and the Intentional Fallacy
Channel: Electric Didact
Date: 2016-07-21

In which we ask whether what we mean is actually what we mean, and then discuss briefly why Donald Trump doesn’t have control over the meaning of his anti-Semitic tweets. 

The first of a multi-part series of videos looking into how language and meaning function. 

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Works Cited: 
William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy,” 1946

Michael Wreen, “Beardsley’s Aesthetics,” 2014, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beardsley-aesthetics/)

MedievalPOC (http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/120700787603/paul-van-somer-i-queen-anne-of-denmark-denmark) 

Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author (1968)

SEE ALSO:
Reginald Shepherd, “On the Intentional Fallacy,” March 19, 2008, Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/on-the-intentional-fallacy/) 

Alana Horowitz Satlin, “Trump Claims Star of David Picture Isn’t Anti-Semitic,” Huffington Post, July 5, 2016 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-star-of-david_us_577a6355e4b04164641065e9)

Michelle Ye Hee Lee, "Everything you wanted to know about Trump and the six-pointed star," Washington Post, July 6, 2016 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-trump-and-the-six-pointed-star/) 

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Assets:
Donald Trump (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-fisher/donald-trump-the-man-the-_b_9235214.html)

MedievalPOC (http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/120700787603/paul-van-somer-i-queen-anne-of-denmark-denmark) 

Corrupt Hillary poster:  (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/trump-uses-star-of-david-to-call-clinton-corrupt.html)