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Noninferentially justified beliefs will simply consist of those beliefs that do not depend on any other beliefs for their justification.
So that leaves (iv): if any of our beliefs are justified, then they must either be foundationally justified or depend, ultimately, on foundational beliefs for their justification.
He too notes that they must be taken to reflect synthetic identities since, at least initially, they require empirical support for their justification.
According to foundationalism regarding justification, we have some foundationally justified beliefs, and all other justified beliefs must depend for their justification on foundationally justified beliefs.
Although students may be aware of the unethical nature of academically dishonest behaviour, techniques of neutralisation offer one theoretical explanation for their justification of unethical behaviours (Sykes and Matza 1957).
But if the principles of Bayesian epistemology depend ultimately for their justification solely on the laws of deductive logic, what reason is there to think that they have any inductive content?
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In order to construct an argument for anything that is not a simple syllogism (and perhaps even then), one must depend on the reliability of one's memory for the earlier steps and for their justifications.
Analysts of democratisation in the Middle East cite the Islamists' references to respect for human rights in their justification for these programmes as evidence that these groups can serve as a progressive force in the region.
But when I probed for their moral justification, several either shut me down with blunt responses or just stopped replying altogether.
For explanations derive their justification from their content and not how that arrived at their content.
"They [Sikh radicals] really are just thugs who use the religion as their justification for intimidation and violence".
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