They appear to require a strong partiality toward those with shared biological features, physical appearances, or origins, a partiality that conflicts with equally strong, if more abstract convictions about the justification for our conduct towards others.
Five of the 14 reporting criteria showed a significant trend for improvement: reporting on loss of clusters to follow-up (P=0.01); identification as "cluster randomised" in title or abstract (P=0.038); providing a justification for the clustered design (P=0.038); reporting whether or not outcome assessors had been blinded (P=0.019); and reporting of the number of clusters randomised (P=0.035).
It was not abstract theory that provided the justification for the index fund, but the compelling evidence that money managers as a group cannot beat the market; they must lose to the market by the amount of the fees and costs charged by active fund managers.Gross return in the stockmarket, minus the costs of investing, equals the net return that investors as a group must share.
A qualified version of the negative answer is offered by Michael Davis (2005) who argues that in practice, if not in abstract theory, there is no justification for torture.[2] A third perspective combines elements of both of these two groups, namely, that torture can in some extreme emergencies be morally justified, but that torture ought never to be legalised or otherwise institutionalised.
Co-existing with the sense of guilt and indebtedness, the respondents also expressed different levels of reflexivity on the more abstract elements of filial piety as a justification for choosing career/family development in the UK.
Just the assertion that something must be done because it is in some abstract way "the right thing".Wasn't that the justification for the Iraq war?
These results not only provide useful algorithmic tools but also imply a theoretical justification for studying external memory algorithms using simple abstract models.
The theory is just another abstract and unlikely exercise in historical prophecy - hardly a solid enough justification for sending real men to fight a real war.
However, in the Discussion we provide a careful justification for why brain injury (TBI) is emphasized in the Abstract and Title.
In less abstract terms, reason's self-scrutiny is scrutiny by all those who demand justification for any given mode of thought or action.
