1
[ verb ] attribute or credit to

Examples

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare" "People impute great cleverness to cats"

2
[ verb ] attribute to a source or cause

Examples

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

Whitehead is here questioning David_Hume 's understanding of the nature of experience ; he is questioning , also , every epistemology which stems from Hume 's presupposition that experience is merely sense_data in abstraction from causal efficacy , and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world , not directly perceived .

3
[ verb ] attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

Examples

"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"

Related terms

ascribe ascribe

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