ascription
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8.5
- noun
- /əˈskrɪpʃən/
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atribución
- The researcher focused on the ascription of authorship to the various artworks in the museum.
- causal ascriptions
- ascription of meaning
- ascription of properties
I think now about ascription to whom we ascribe evil.
- I think now about ascription to whom we ascribe evil.
Examples
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But the objection has greater force in cases involving the ascription of intentions to collective entities, such as legislatures and multimember courts.
Academic text (2018) -
What grounds is there for withholding ascriptions of beliefs and desires to the computer?
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If those who receive the signs interpret them correctly, ascription of meaning occurs, which can lead to effective learning.
Academic text (1997) -
Just because they often accompany ascriptions of blame does not mean that they are always there.
Blog text (11) -
Society at large should not be organized according to inborn ascription like race, but to merit and achievement.
Academic text (2002) -
There again, the negative ascription of Cajun spread in English through mostly English-language media.
Academic text (1998) -
However, although ascription and self-ascription do certainly reflect a collective identity, they do not necessarily reflect an ethnic one.
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We usually take it that the same point applies to present-tense ascriptions to oneself of psychological states in general.
Academic text (1999) -
As Jenkins points out, it is important to distinguish between two analytically distinct processes of ascription: group identification and social categorization.
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Language, in popular discourse, appears to be less negotiable and malleable than ethnic/racial ascriptions.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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6.3
Saying a person, thing, or event caused something
Saying that something belongs to a particular person or source
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ascription comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and scribere 'to write', the same root you see in scribe and script. So an ascription is like 'writing' a quality or cause onto a person or thing, which means saying they are responsible for it or that they are the author of it.