Attribution Error

Famous quotes containing the words attribution and/or error:

“The intension of a proposition comprises whatever the proposition entails: and it includes nothing else.... The connotation or intension of a function comprises all that attribution of this predicate to anything entails as also predicable to that thing.”
—Clarence Lewis (1883–1964)

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)