If we attribute the whole of the stabilisation of the economy to Fed actions, then about the best we can say is that the zero bound didn't prevent the Fed from halting the steady decline of the American economy.
Or, if we attribute some view to Plato himself, are we being unfaithful to the spirit in which he intended the dialogues to be read?
For instance, rationality considerations will typically lead us to attribute a belief that q to a person if we attribute a belief that p and also attribute a belief that p entails q.
We proceed on the assumption that the others we are interpreting live in the same world as we do.We subvert this assumption, however, if we attribute to them beliefs that substantially differ from our own.
If we attribute to others a pattern of beliefs that are different from our own, i.e., false beliefs, this tends to undermine the identification of the subject matter; to undermine, therefore, the validity of the belief as being about that subject.
The problems which this approach intended to avoid were two undesired implications arising from predication of a quality of God namely, that if we attribute a particular quality to God, this quality exists co-extensively with God, and must hence be co-eternal; secondly, it introduces multiplicity to God.
We don't even know if we attribute the same meaning to the words we use.
If we attribute any significance to human existence, significance in the "larger scheme of things," then surely any thoughtful person will consider for a moment that all accomplishments of humankind are destined to cease to exist by the simple physical reality of the evolving nature of the cosmos.
If we attribute the additional motion to a combination of intrinsic, rapid motions of the flexible chains themselves tethered to the surface of the granule, we can model the variation of Deff with Δ to estimate the overall size of the underlying granule.
If we incorrectly attributed some of the effect of the complete intervention to the condom use skills component, our estimates will understate the incremental cost-effectiveness of the complete intervention and overstate the average cost-effectiveness of the condom use skills component.
