Sentence examples for a degree of justification from inspiring English sources
And though white imperialists did plenty of frightful things, a good many of their accounts speak of their total enthrallment with what they found: the Taoist idea that intercourse, for example, permitted a man to absorb life-enhancing yin forces, undeniably offered a degree of justification for foreigners to have a great deal of fun.
He still argues, with a degree of justification, that he is fighting savage terrorists; he has sent diplomats to Tehran and Moscow, and gone on a charm offensive with the press.Despite seeing Mr Assad as something of a embarrassment, there are no signs that his backers want to be rid of him yet.
In this way, a designer acquires a certain degree of justification in bypassing expert intuition.
Today's steel industry, they insist — with a fair degree of justification — is characterized by squeaky-clean, profitable plants controlled by computers, which are in turn controlled by well-educated engineers.
Suppose that global skepticism is necessarily true: it is a necessary truth that no subject is capable of having much justification for any of her beliefs; although it may seem to us as though a significant degree of justification is possible, this in fact is incorrect.
One rationale, presented "up-front" in his article (Goldman 2011), is to advance a "two-dimensional" approach to justification, an approach that makes room for a "degree of support" dimension of justification as well as a "proper causal generation" dimension.
Arguments for mentalism are in somewhat better shape, for in many contexts it does appear that a difference in mental states best explains a difference in the degree of justification for a belief.
The support provided to mentalism by this explanatory argument is limited, mainly because explaining a difference in degree of justification falls short of establishing that it is plausible to hold that all justifiers are mental items.
What is sought is a way of computing the "on sum" degree of justification of a conclusion in terms of the degrees of justification of all relevant premises and the strengths of all relevant reasons.
Induction is, of course, very difficult to justify (in part because its degree of justification varies case by case).
