"misspelled attribution"? Can "attribution" be "misspelled"?

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"misspelled attribution"? Can "attribution" be "misspelled"?

A word or a name can be misspelled. But attribution?

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cause many nonscientists to shake their heads in disbelief. Yet
all of these particles make possible our very existence. For
those who argue that materialism should be favored over the-
ism, because materialism is simpler and more intuitive, these
new concepts present a major challenge. A variation on Ernest
Rutherford's dictum is famously known as Occam's Razor, a
misspelled attribution to the fourteenth-century English logi-
cian and monk William of Ockham. This principle suggests
that the simplest explanation for any given problem is usu-
ally best. Today, Occam's Razor appears to have been
relegated to the Dumpster by the bizarre models of quantum
physics.
 

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Re: "misspelled attribution"? Can "attribution" be "misspelled"?

A word or a name can be misspelled. But attribution?

Context:

cause many nonscientists to shake their heads in disbelief. Yet
all of these particles make possible our very existence. For
those who argue that materialism should be favored over the-
ism, because materialism is simpler and more intuitive, these
new concepts present a major challenge. A variation on Ernest
Rutherford's dictum is famously known as Occam's Razor, a
misspelled attribution to the fourteenth-century English logi-
cian and monk William of Ockham. This principle suggests
that the simplest explanation for any given problem is usu-
ally best. Today, Occam's Razor appears to have been
relegated to the Dumpster by the bizarre models of quantum
physics.
The misspelling here is Occam, not attribution. William of Ockham is the person for which Occam's Razor is named. The spelling is different, not unusual for names from the Middle Ages.
 
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