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单词 analogy of attribution
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analogy of attribution
analogy of attribution n. the attribution of a quality or property to something which does not intrinsically possess it, based on the relation of that thing to that which does.For example, an animal and medicine can both be called healthy, but only for the animal is it a proper attribute; medicine is called healthy because it can be a cause of good health in the animal.
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1675 R. Baxter Two Disputations of Orig. Sin ii. 77 As Accidens is said to be called Ens but by analogy of attribution, as having a less participation of the kind, and yet it is truly Ens: so the original sin of infants is called sin by such an analogy.
1739 ‘Philalethes’ Philos. Diss. Human Knowl. 44 I mean the Logical Analogy of Attribution, not the Mathematical one of Proportion.
1880 Catholic World Feb. 582/2 The analogy of attribution in virtue of which one thing receives a denomination from another which is generically diverse from it, on account of the similarity in the effects of the two analogues, is by no means similar to transcendental analogy.
2006 R. Sokolowski Christian Faith & Human Understanding 59 Analogy of attribution requires not only a primary instance of something, but some sort of causation.
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