Sentence examples for hypothetical justifications from inspiring English sources
But I cannot extend these "hypothetical" justifications to a point where some purely theoretical consideration of my obligations whether derived from the will of God, from Reason, or from the situation itself could underwrite my freedom in such a way as to relieve it of responsibility.
"No hypothetical justification can overcome the clear primary purpose and practical effect of the marriage bans … to disparage and demean the dignity of same-sex couples in the eyes of the state and the wider community," Black wrote.
This kind of thought experiment may seem artificial, since there is always some sort of justification for any hypothetical theory which is accepted or at least seriously considered by the scientific community.
Rawls initially understood public justification entirely in terms of a hypothetical contract where principles of justice were justified for all members of the public.
Example 3. A hypothetical syllogism (the constructive conditional syllogism): The ad hoc justification is: just substitute x = 1 into the first equation.
"California has not demonstrated any justification for the unlicensed notice that is more than purely hypothetical," he wrote.
A complication is that the justification of moral claims in Rawls proceeds also by arguing that rational persons in a hypothetical "original position" of freedom and equality would be rational to choose certain principles of social justice.
The hypothetical agreement itself provides only what Rawls (1996, 386) calls a "pro tanto" or "so far as it goes" justification of the principles of justice.
With his "Responding to Criticism" (Ying jian 應間), a work modeled on Yang Xiong's "Justification Against Ridicule", Zhang was an early writer and proponent of the Chinese literary genre shelun, or hypothetical discourse.
