Sentence examples for acquire a justification from inspiring English sources

Given your antecedent justification for believing Q, you are justified in trusting your own counting and so you acquire a justification for P that intuitively transmits to Q, thereby strengthening your antecedent testimony-based justification for it.

It is worth emphasising that the thesis that Moore's proof is useless because non-transmissive in the sense explained is compatible with the claim that by learning E8 in Moore s does acquire a justification for believing P8.

If Water is non-transmissive, s could acquire a justification for, or knowledge of, P9 and P10 only if s were in possession of an independent justification for, or knowledge of, Q9. (And to avoid the absurd result that McKinsey recoils from, this independent justification for Q9 should presumably be empirical).

Whereas a theory of perceptual justification treats not-r liberally with respect to p if it says that in order to acquire a justification for believing p on the basis of her apparent perception that p, s does not need any independent justification for not-r.

Therefore, one might be tempted to conclude that when s directly apprehends the truth of p, s acquires a justification that typically transmits to the propositions that s knows to be deducible from p (cf. Wright 2002).

A theory of perceptual justification treats not-r (i.e., the logical negation of r) conservatively with respect to p if it says that s acquires a justification for believing p on the basis of her apparent perception that p only if she has independent justification for believing not-r.

However, if this antecedent justification had not been in place, given that the flock was very mobile, by counting the sheep you could not have acquired a justification for P. Thus, the additional quantitatively strengthening justification transmitted to Q is not independent.

Hence, it is important to acquire a theoretical justification for survey methods to meet a required estimation precision.

Prosocial values acquire a strong ethical justification based on shared need, and can be clearly defined as grant criteria, when applied to patients such as those who will benefit from disease-specific stem cell treatments.

The New Left got affirmative action, relaxed gender norms, and good coffee, while the corporations acquired a new justification for their profits.

The saloon-bar challenge: "What you lookin' at, dickhead?" could suddenly acquire a new significance, not to mention a justification.