Definition of imput
1. impute [ v ] attribute or credit to
Examples:
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"
"People impute great cleverness to cats"
2. impute [ v ] attribute to a source or cause
Examples:
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"
(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 .
Synonyms regard_as think_of attribute look_upon assign impute ascribe take_to_be repute look_on esteem Related Terms think judge blame credit accredit internalize project reattribute sensualize personify anthropomorphize repute reputation3. impute [ v ] attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
Examples:
"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
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