All 9 Uses of
attribute
in
Atlas Shrugged
- A train has the two great attributes of life, she thought, motion and purpose; this had been like a living entity, but now it was only a number of dead freight cars and engines.†
Chpt 2.1 (definition 1)
- There were no attributes of reality to perceive, nothing but their absence: no sound, as if she were alone on the train-no motion, as if this were not a train, but a room in a building-no light, as if this were neither train nor room, but space without objects-no sign of violence or physical disaster, as if this were the state where disaster is no longer possible.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 1)
- But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists…… Yes, I am continuing in my profession.†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 1)
- It was always the animal's attributes, not man's, that humanity worshipped: the idol of instinct and the idol of force-the mystics and the kings-the mystics, who longed for an irresponsible consciousness and ruled by means of the claim that their dark emotions were superior to reason, that knowledge came in blind, causeless fits, blindly to be followed, not doubted-and the kings, who ruled by means of claws and muscles, with conquest as their method and looting as their aim, with a…†
Chpt 3.1 (definition 2)
- To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.†
Chpt 3.7 (definition 1)
- Whatever you choose to consider, be it an object, an attribute or an action, the law of identity remains the same.†
Chpt 3.7 (definition 1) *
- Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence-that man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and that he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions-that, like a judge impervious to public opinion, he may not sacrifice his convictions to the wishes of…†
Chpt 3.7 (definition 1)
- She wondered whether the unnatural lightness of her body was a state of tension or relaxation; her body seemed drawn so tightly that she felt as if it were reduced to a single attribute: to the power of motion; her mind seemed inaccessibly relaxed, like a motor set to the automatic control of an absolute no longer to be questioned.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 2) *
- It is, that the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject in the same respect….†
Chpt 3.10 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (attribute as in: It is an attribute of...) a characteristic (of something or someone)
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(2) (attribute as in: I attribute it to...) to credit (a source for something)in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea