different between attribution vs contrastivism

English

Etymology

From Middle French attribution, from Latin attributio.

Noun

attribution (countable and uncountable, plural attributions)

1. The act of attributing something.
2. An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.

   The attribution of the quote is widely regarded as dubious.

3. (law) A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.

Derived terms

• deattribution

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attrib?ti?. Synchronically analysable as attribuer +? -tion.

Pronunciation

Noun

attribution f (plural attributions)

1. allocation, allotment
2. (in the plural) remit, duty

   Je suis désolé, mais cela ne fait pas partie de mes attributions.

See also

• assignation

Further reading

• “attribution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

contrastive +? -ism

Noun

contrastivism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) An epistemological theory suggesting that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form "S knows that p rather than q", in contrast to the traditional view whereby knowledge attributions have a binary structure of the form "S knows that p".