What is important is that there are two distinct justifications that are possible; one appealing to the mere immorality of the conduct interfered with, the other to the harm done to the agent's character.
Given that knowledge is distinct from justification, and is also a stronger relation than justification, do a posteriori necessities pose a problem for a priori justification about modal truths or only for a priori knowledge?
Although the lines that separate one theory from another are not always distinct, philosophical justifications of political obligation nowadays usually take the form of arguments from consent, gratitude, fair play, membership, or natural duty.
These two notions of efficiency may be distinct, but the entire justification for a free-market economy is that it should be easy to confuse the two.
By making NATO the focus of his own defense, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader, has extended that justification a distinct notch: you in the West, he says, with your nice homes and radar-skirting bombers -- you, too, are bloodied.
An issue associated with, but distinct from, that of justification is whether people have a right to engage in civil disobedience.
The usual justification for grouping distinct realizers under a single functional kind is that the classification reveals interesting similarities, of the sort we expect to be captured by laws or generalizations of higher level science.
'Given that properties are constituted by the world and not by our concepts', Brian Loar comments, 'it is fair of the physicalist to request a justification of the assumption that conceptually distinct concepts must express metaphysically distinct properties' (Loar 1999, 467; see also his 1997).
Using this method, we show that in the vicinity of a mode I crack tip, there are three distinct mechanisms of dilatant deformation, each having strong experimental justification.
7. Finer distinctions are sometimes drawn; for example, one might consider ex ante justification (in a position to have a justified belief) as distinct from both doxastic (having a justified belief) and propositional (having reason to believe) justification.
