Ascription (Noun)
Meaning 1
Assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned".
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The recent string of awards and accolades were nothing but a mistake in the press' hasty ascription of achievements.
- Scientists cautioned against making false or incomplete judgments when placing assumptions via visual or immediate sensory information used to effect what or in human thoughts involves logical statement types form commonly false psychological or erroneous ascriptions.
- Skeptics believed that the politician's newly-emerging environmentalist stance was merely a political ascription intended to bolster the party's image.
- Aristotle, in his discussion of the four causes, is concerned with the problem of ascription, i.e., how to attribute to causes the effect that occurs.
- In line with the latest media trend of revising forgotten facts and reframing conclusions widely held by public thought as being somehow related or connected for validity effect, faulty initial ascription may be put back in its rightful context for accountability purposes.