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A page on Knowledge (XXG) could be said to indicate the intentions of the aggregate of users who have edited it up to that point: it has multiple authority. But many of its editors will disagree with one another about what the page should contain. The idea of 'final intention' does not easily apply,
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copy, reconstructed from memory by one of the actors. If this is so, then it has some authority, but much less than the first authorized quarto, Q2 (1602). In comparison, however, it might be a useful authority to the cuts and adaptations made in the performance it was based
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editing school) generally attempt to retrieve final authorial intentions. The concept is of particular importance for textual critics, whether they believe that authorial intention is recoverable, or whether they think that this recovery is impossible.
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A text's authority is made more problematic when it has more than one author, when it falsely asserts itself to be someone else's work, or when it is revised many times. For instance:
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of a text is its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions. These intentions could be initial, medial or final, but intentionalist editors (most notably represented by
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since the page is never complete, and since a recent change (e.g. a piece of vandalism) might not be satisfactory to any of the other editors except the one who made it.
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edition in many ways. Most modern versions collate the two, preferring one edition in one passage and the other in another. But some editors, such as
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have no authority as the work of their supposed author, but they do have authority as a witness to the intentions of
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Authority can also be related to a particular edition, especially if this edition reaches a degree of popularity.
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derives from a lost manuscript, of which three copies reside in the
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A diary which is probably authentic has total authority.
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