The increasing complexity of computer technology and the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), challenge the idea that human beings are the only entities to which moral responsibility can or should be ascribed (Bechtel 1985).
That, clearly, should be ascribed to judgment, not luck.
So the same level of uncertainty should be ascribed to Daley as to the debutants above.
But the book's sparkle should be ascribed as much to its editor, Adam Gopnik, as to the voices that he collects.
(Updike, who threw away at least two manuscripts before publishing The Poorhouse Fair, generously though perhaps disingenuously suggested that Kermode's "inability to write a novel" should be ascribed to "a deficiency of presumption … rather than of any other qualities").
Nobody could say for sure how much that had to do with the weekend's events, and how much should be ascribed to the fact the Chiefs had not won a game at Arrowhead in almost a year.
There are many possible reasons why Messrs Stansky and Kaye lost their sparkle, but it is difficult nearly impossible, perhaps to tell whether fund managers' performances should be ascribed to talent or chance.
But the Ottoman advances should be ascribed less to French overtures than to Süleyman's own ambitions, together with his fears of Habsburg rule in Hungary and a possible alliance among the Habsburgs, Hungarians, and Ṣafavids.
Further postseismic deformation should be ascribed to viscoelastic relaxation.
This should be ascribed to the enhanced hydrophobic interaction and the subsequent force balance shifts.
The attractive electrochemical performance should be ascribed to the remarkable capacitive contribution.
