What is another word for attributions?

Pronunciation: [ɐtɹɪbjˈuːʃənz] (IPA)

Attributions are the ways in which we assign meaning or causality to behavior or events. Synonyms for the word "attributions" can include interpretations, assessments, ascriptions, judgments, determinations, explanations, explanations, analyses, and evaluations. These words all describe the act of assigning meaning or significance to behavior or events. Attributions are important for understanding, predicting, and responding to the world around us, and having a variety of words to describe this process can help us communicate more clearly and effectively about the way we interpret and understand the world.

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Usage examples for Attributions

There is nearly always the possibility that false or contradictory attributions, as, for example, the mention of "book" and "books" or "the French book" and "the Latin book" as sources of the same romance, are merely stupidly literal renderings of the original.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Gerald held it long and gazed seriously, with that conceit in his own judgment which made him sometimes dispute the attributions in no less a gallery than the Uffizi-say that a Verocchio was not a Verocchio, a Giorgione not a Giorgione.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
In self-defence Amadieu answered correctly enough that the affair did not as yet concern him, and would only come within his attributions, if Salvat should be arrested and the investigation placed in his hands.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola

Famous quotes with Attributions

  • Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
    John Searle
  • We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
    John Searle
  • I love these tales because, in more reasonable attributions of motive, they so beautifully embody a fundamental theme of historical explanation - that consequences of substantial import often arise from triggers of entirely different intent. In other words, current utility bears no necessary relationship with historical origin.
    Stephen Jay Gould

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