Meanings
- In a manner that can be attributed (to something)
Attributably to your heart as its doing, it pumps blood through your body.
2008, Ernest Sosa, Jaekwon Kim, Jeremy Fantl, Epistemology: An Anthology, page 4863 more examples
Take a case in which, while dreaming, I still happen to be right in my belief that I face a fire. In that case I would not be right attributably to my perception.
2012, Kelly James Clark, Michael Rea, Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind, page 114I am not sure, especially if there is a distinction between the attributably non-negative and the positive.
2017, Abrol Fairweather, Mark Alfano, Epistemic Situationism, page 144A performance is apt if, and only if, it is correct attributably to a competence exercised by the performer, in conditions appropriate for its exercise.
2022, Yong Huang, Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, page 122
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