Intentions is issued as a public book of critical essays
In 1891 Intentions collected Wilde’s critical essays as a public book. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In 1891 Intentions collected Wilde’s critical essays as a public book. This Fact stores that criticism-access, split from Decay of Lying’s anti-fact brief.
Context
One volume, two signs.
Oscar Wilde’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Why it matters
A public criticism book increased copyable aesthetic argument.
Intentions is not Poems 1881.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Oscar Wilde
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.55 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactIntentions is issued as a public book of critical essays
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 May 1891 · verified
A public criticism book increased copyable aesthetic argument.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Project Gutenberg — Oscar Wilde author pageProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
- 2.British LibraryBritish Library · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Gutenberg and the British Library independently present Intentions as a public 1891 book.
Established: 1891 public Intentions. Not established: that it replaced Ruskin’s chair.
Contribution type is direct.
Later museums, UNESCO listings, Loeb reprints, and 2024–2025 COP or NATO rows are not this event. Responsibility 0.55 and influence 0.55 bound the path; they are not a personality score. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Readers should open both named URLs.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorOscar Wilde
- contributed toFactIntentions is issued as a public book of critical essays
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Intentions is issued as a public book of critical essays. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-intentions-access-1891
https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-intentions-access-1891
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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