This definition is reminiscent of Descartes' notion of attributes as it appears in the Principle of Philosophy insofar as attributes are related to the essence (or essences) of substance.
For these actions (and inactions) can normatively be attributed to people only insofar as they make the decision to act (or not act).
Beauty is an objective property, founded in the perfection of things, but it is also a relational rather than intrinsic property, for it is attributed to perfection only insofar as there are subjects like us who can perceive it sensorily.
In this study, the results show that for some diagnostic groups, variations in survival between regions cannot be entirely attributed to socioeconomic differentials, insofar as the latter are fully reflected by the Townsend score.
But God will, in practice, not exercise absolute power: as Aquinas puts it, "what is attributed to the divine power insofar as the command of a just will executes it, God is said to be able to do with respect to His ordered power".
The study concluded that "the sociological, psychological and medical ills commonly attributed to marijuana have been exaggerated insofar as the City of New York is concerned".
While the first federal drug czar, Harry J. Anslinger, preached the many evils of marijuana, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York was undecided, commissioning a study of the subject that found "the sociological, psychological and medical ills commonly attributed to marijuana have been exaggerated insofar as the City of New York is concerned".
However, given the epistemological status attributed to philosophy by Althusser, these metaphysical propositions or "theses" are true only insofar as they have explanatory or practical value.
When moral conflict occurs, this is generally attributed to a conflict of instincts, with the stronger of two conflicting instincts favored by natural selection insofar as it favors group benefit (ibid., 84).
The relative stability of the velocity of circulation is attributed by them to the facility with which the supply of money accommodates itself to demand; they argue that insofar as supply may be restricted in the face of rising demand, velocity will increase, or (what really amounts to the same thing) new sources of credit, such as trade credit, will be exploited.
