This is particularly likely if a large number of variants are included in the analysis, and/or if the justification for using the variants in the analysis is solely on the basis of observational associations with the risk factor.
But if the justification for following the law in this case was simply that this provided a convenient solution to a difficult question, that itself raises moral questions.
Some opponents may actually accept that something like acquaintance exists but doubt that it can provide much, if any, justification for our beliefs; in denying that they have found anything like acquaintance, it may be that they mean only to deny that they have found a relation of acquaintance that can make a significant difference to the epistemic justification of our beliefs.
If the justification for treating living beings in certain ways does rest to some extent on their possession or lack of intellectual attributes, then it may be acceptable to treat cognitively disabled human beings in ways that it would be unacceptable to treat cognitively nondisabled humans.
It may remand a case back to a lower court if it finds justification for the reopening of proceedings.
Plaintiffs present little, if any, legitimate justification for these remedies, and in most instances, these proposals are not supported by any economic analysis.
Dr. Kinney has appointed a panel of scientists led by Dr. John Bahcall, an astrophysicist at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., to evaluate NASA's plans for Hubble and to see if there is justification for a change.
If I need justification for attending, it is on the perhaps thin premise that staying away would set a precedent requiring a boycott of just about every sport event in the world.
A basic formulation of the principle of epistemic closure states that if s has justification for believing p and s knows that p entails q, then s has (or potentially has) justification for believing q.
But, if so, the justification for this crucial operation of the framework must appeal to some of "the moral arguments for individual liberty" from which Nozick wants his utopia argument to be independent.
