Synonyms:
attribution, ascription
Meaning: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"
Synonyms:
attribution, ascription
Meaning: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
Usage examples
It is true that this attribution is not absolutely characteristic of mental phenomena, for it happens that we put a part of our Ego into material objects, such as our bodies, and even into objects separate from our bodies, and whose sole relation to us is that of a legal proprietorship.