Publisher's Synopsis
Whilst we attribute thoughts and feelings to others to understand their actions, we also attribute character traits to them. Thinking the old man a grumpy person, I might predict a rebuke when accidentally kicking footballs into his garden. We might ask 'why is Breonna in the office so late?' where often, one's judgment that she is a hard-working person is a perfectly reasonable explanation. As such, there is a question of how one attributes the trait to the person to begin with. I do not mean that we might wonder what it is about, for example, donating to charity that makes one generous, though this is a good question.1 I am concerned with what allows one to link/relate a person to their supposed character traits such that one can use this attribution in practical reasoning
