How can he be so certain of things to come -- when other journalists equivocate and hide behind attributions to rumor and gossip?
An exhibition opening this week at the Royal Academy represents centuries of academic punch-ups over attributions to the puzzling 16th-century Venetian genius, Giorgione.
Since none of his work is signed, a customary omission in Poyet's day, attributions to him -- aside from the evidence offered by this document -- are based mainly on stylistic indications.
The Reuters news agency, for example, only uses terms such as "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" in direct quotes or third-party attributions to avoid characterizing the subjects of news stories.
Mr. Alter declined to comment on Thursday, but told The New York Law Journal in October that his nomination appeared to have run into trouble because of "certain false attributions" to him of statements that he denied making.
(Since the first Angelico retrospective, in Florence in 1955, new attributions to the artist have come thick and fast, by the standards of art history, incidentally reducing the already doubtful status of the Late Gothic painter Gherardo Starnina, whose putative touchstone "Thebaid," a teeming narrative of a monk's travels to Egypt, now belongs to the young Angelico).
Older and more cognitively advanced children made fewer attributions to discrimination than their peers.
Study 2 examined benevolent attributions to actual kin, friends, and strangers.
These results generalize the effect of abstract and concrete framing on biological attributions to a new measure.
(Notice that insisting that mental state attributions to animals are not metaphorical is compatible with such attributions being systematically false).
