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Ascription
Ascription meaning
The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work, or other thing to someone or something. | The stratification of people according to inborn characteristics (such as race or sex) outside of their control.
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However, the ascription of such an inflammatory label to acts of ‘Nature’ – to grant weather agency – requires a profound philosophical re-orientation.
Both bourgeoisie and nobility in the 15th and 16th century showed great fascination with these arts, which exerted an exotic charm by their ascription to Arabic, Jewish, Gypsy, and Egyptian sources, and the popularity of white magic increased.
However, the impure distortion results from human ascription of false validity and worship to Divine manifestations, rather than realising their nullification to God's Unity alone.
Its ethos and cultural matrix was likewise Hellenistic, and "the ascription of literature to sources beyond that political, cultural and temporal framework represents a bid for authority and a fount of legitimizing "alien wisdom".
Since the late 19th century, however, scholars have increasingly doubted this ascription, largely on stylistic grounds.
Tacitus, Dial. Orat. 12. Lactantius quotes from a lost translation by Ovid of Aratus ' Phaenomena, although the poem's ascription to Ovid is insecure because it is never mentioned in Ovid's other works.
This is evident from his ascription to God of corporeity and his acceptance of the traducian theory of the origin of the soul.