attribution
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌætrɪˈbjuːʃən/
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atribución
- What you do is you interact with people, you learn about them until you get enough data to make an attribution to them whether they're OK or they're not OK.
- causal attributions
- internal attribution
- make attributions
What I will say is this is what we call a false attribution error that a lot of people make.
- What I will say is this is what we call a false attribution error that a lot of people make.
- But we do this all the time, and then we make incorrect or inaccurate attributions, right?
- To this end, I will not proceed chronologically, but for my most secure attribution to more probable ones.
- And when I say we did something, I mean that they did something that's a fair shorthand for for attribution.
Examples
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The attribution of the painting to the famous artist changed its value significantly.
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Still, the report offered little forensic evidence to confirm the government's attribution statement from October 25.
Academic text (2017) -
On the one hand, private firms' cases for attribution of state responsibility are speculative.
Academic text (2017) -
The design of the study did not permit a clear attribution of the findings to contextualization.
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Despite its difficulties, attribution, both personal and technical, remains essential to addressing malicious cyber activity.
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A determination of attribution is rarely definitive, and will usually be hedged with some degree of uncertainty.
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International law, as summarized in Tallinn 2.0, requires much less proof of attribution than lawyers traditionally expect.
Academic text (2017) -
While wrongfulness may be easily established, as mentioned above, attribution is notoriously elusive and difficult in cyberspace.
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Central to Le Goff's thesis is his attribution of the twelfth-century birth of purgatory to social-historical causes.
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In her essay, she made a clear attribution of the study's findings to the research conducted in the previous year.
Synonyms
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3.5
To publicly say someone is responsible for something
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8.5
Saying that someone or something is the source of something
Saying that something belongs to a particular person or source
Compounds
- Specialized
A belief that one bad event means you will fail in many situations
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word attribution comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and tribuere 'give', and it is like English words such as contribute and tribute that mean 'give'. So, an attribution is when you 'give' a cause or blame to a person or thing.