Sentence examples for familiar justifications from inspiring English sources

Speculative markets and growing wealth momentum also corrupt philosophy and ideology, reshaping them toward familiar justifications of greed and ruthlessness.

The instrumentalism of these familiar justifications was disheartening, but not surprising given everything these presidents were going to face the next morning when a pleasant collegial conversation would be succeeded by the problems that were just barely addressed and certainly not solved this evening.

The reason for this is that they are partly reactions to the perceived failures of the other three, more familiar approaches to public justification.

A related objection to rule-consequentialism is that rule-consequentialism makes the justification of familiar rules contingent on various empirical facts, such as what human nature is like, and how many people there are in need or in positions to help.

Its strategy is obvious, offering up, in Eichmann's own words, denials and justifications that are familiar and predictable ("I did not kill Jews; the only thing I did was follow orders") mixed with the vile bigotries, equally familiar, of a Nazi true believer.

While the former is simply untrue, the latter justification is devastatingly familiar and illustrates the new mentality pervading higher education.

(This results in a version of the familiar consensus interpretation of public justification).

Still, the contours of the N.Y.P.D.'s justification should be deeply familiar to us by now.

Now things are broadened to encompass justification analogs of other familiar modal logics.

There are familiar problems with relativism about epistemic justification, however (see Boghossian 2006).

In justification logics, instead of the familiar \ KX\) of epistemic logic we have \ tX\), where \(t\) is an explicit justification term.