Quotes About Ascription

The label "from the American" has, of course, very little to do with being precise about accent, vocabulary, writing style, orthography, geography, or citizenship. It simply has to do with the ascription of a cultural inferiority.

This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed

The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events.

The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now