ascription

“Gender is an outdated ascription when it comes to fashion. We’re moving toward a place where taste is the true arbiter,” she says.

“Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate,” Conway and Kochen write, “since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom.”

Cognitive therapy, at the least, hurries the process along and, at the most, helps unstick that subset of individuals who get stuck making negative ascriptions about themselves, typically about personal competence or lovability.

At the same time, all the ascription conditions here are contested.

We desire to be recognised for who we really are, and seek in our very ascription the means of uniting our intimate identities with our social selves.