Such an attribution of power to God therefore seems to be empty (frustra).
We have here, then, a point at which Austin expresses his view that ordinary attributions of ability, power, and capacity are incompatible with the thesis of determinism.
That is, the attribution of "magical" powers to an inanimate object, like a tribal talisman, rather than any sexy stuff.
Aristotelian natural philosophy relies in part on sensory observation in its attribution of causal powers to natural bodies.
Malebranche held that our attribution of causal powers to bodies manifests in particular an attachment to the body that is an effect of original sin.
As we have seen, Aristotelian natural philosophy relies in part on repeated observation in its attribution of causal powers to natural bodies.
One form such reactive ideology may take is the attribution of messianic powers to an admired leader, an attribution that, when it is disappointed as it inevitably must be, brings further traumatization.
Doubtless he was flattered by the attribution of such magical powers.
In Part Four, the article turns to the task of embedding the discourse of food as exposure in broader historical and cultural context, discussing the attribution of pathogenic and therapeutic power to food molecules in biotechnology, food engineering and marketing, nanotechnology, nutrigenomics, and the toxicology of pesticides, food packaging and preservatives.
We defined health responses as an increase in non-specific health complaints and attribution of these complaints to a power line, triggered by the introduction of a new power line in a residential area.
Gendered norms determine sociocultural identity construction and attribution of rights and reflect unequal power relations.
