He points out that many modern religious believers do not cleave to the kind of literal belief in God imputed to them by militant atheism.
Any suggestion that CUNY faculty or students would be discouraged from free discussion by the chancellor's participation in such discussion would impute to them a timidity that is absurd in reality.
"We, as evangelical Christians, are really, really prone, it seems to me, to become so enthused with political figures that we just automatically impute to them almost superheroic status," he said.
"My hope would be that any presidential candidate can go to a church and hear a sermon and even hear some controversial statements without those views being imputed to them".
Although such lawyers have tended to espouse civil libertarian views, some conservative critics have imputed to them a lack of patriotism and sympathy for the cause of Islamist terrorism.
In truth, however, these conditions are not a matter of the members' actual feelings and thoughts they are interpretive properties that we would do well to impute to them (201).
Under the assumption that agents' valuations for the good are independent draws from a distribution function satisfying the monotone hazard rate condition, it is shown that the mechanism based on the egalitarian solution maximizes the probability that all members of any given coalition accept the cost shares imputed to them.
Ignoratio elenchi retains its dialogical setting but is extended beyond the mere failure to contradict a thesis, "to attribut[ing] to our adversaries something remote from their views to gain an advantage over them, or to impute to them consequences we imagine can be drawn from their doctrines, although they disavow and deny them" (Bk. III, xix 1).
The faces are the same, the texts are the same; it's simply the malevolence of the motive you impute to them that changes.
Yet, the Court continued to recognize the principle that "a change of sovereignty produces no change in individual property, yet it imputes to them only a modified validity".
