The phrase "ascribe properties" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the attribution of certain characteristics or qualities to a subject, object, or concept.
Example: "In her research, she aimed to ascribe properties of resilience to the species in question."
Alternatives: "attribute characteristics" or "assign traits".
But under the right conditions, agents can indirectly ascribe properties to objects other than themselves by self-ascribing properties that (roughly speaking) uniquely describe those other objects.
Reason then becomes a thing to which we can ascribe properties.
Agents cannot directly ascribe properties to individuals other than themselves, for all ascription of properties is self-ascription.
Suppose moral judgments did not ascribe properties and express moral beliefs about what things have those properties.
In the Categories, Aristotle was concerned with subjects of predication: what are the things we talk about, and ascribe properties to?
It was Bohr's (1934) view that one can meaningfully ascribe properties such as position or momentum to a quantum system only in the context of some well-defined experimental arrangement suitable for measuring the corresponding property.
Each humor was in turn ascribed properties drawn from the four elements.
Agents self-ascribe properties, so the things they believe are properties.
Their model involved three flavors of quarks, up, down, and strange, to which they ascribed properties such as spin and electric charge.
Apart from its trypsin inhibiting function, TATI has also been ascribed properties promoting a more malignant phenotype in CRC [ 4] and in prostate cancer cells [ 28].
Professor Blonsky, the semiotician, said it was simply the confluence of all the unsettled events with the changing of the calendar that lead people to ascribe millennial properties to otherwise common events.
