Sentence examples for a form of justification from inspiring English sources

The methodology of discovery has sometimes been characterized as a form of justification that is complementary to the methodology of testing (Nickles 1984, 1985 , 1989.

Traditions often turned out to be "relics" of "barbarous" times, and appeals to nature as a form of justification were just ways to try rationalize continued deference to those relics.

The study also found that a low degree of perceived behavioural control (external or internal) could be used as a form of justification for carrying out an act although this only applied to a situation which they perceived as low risk.

That this holistic way of proceeding (whether in building moral theory or in deliberating: cf. Hurley 1989) can be rational is confirmed by the possibility of a form of justification that is similarly holistic: "justification is a matter of the mutual support of many considerations, of everything fitting together into one coherent view" (Rawls 1999, 19, 507).

Levin's colleague James Alan Fox said mass murderers typically leave writings as a form of justification.

Second, Foucault implicitly challenges the very idea of any form of justification of the practice of punishment.

"Many of which are senseless and lack any form of justification.

After investing that kind of cash, perhaps theatregoers are quicker to leap to their feet as a form of self-justification: for these prices, I'd better have had a "superlative experience".

In roughly the past 20 years India has changed from being a Nehruvian nation-state - an experiment and ideal in democracy - to a portable mode of existence, as well as a form of self-justification for a curious mixture of free-market opportunism and a slyly conservative provincialism.

Alternatively, a proponent might argue that public reason can successfully meet its own test by appeal to a convergence form of justification.

Gaus also argues that parties to a universalizing form of justification will find themselves with multiple eligible social arrangements, which shows that the universalization procedure itself is insufficient to produce a determinate set of justified social arrangements.