Swinburne notes four criteria to be used to determine the best explanation: an explanation is justified insofar as it provides predictability, is simple, fits with our background knowledge, and explains the phenomena better than any other theory (1996, 26).
Its existence is justified only insofar as it, on balance, furthers desirable social goals, both economic and political.
If rights are justified only insofar as they generate good consequences, it may seem that the theory will need to prune its rights, perhaps severely, whenever maximum utility lies elsewhere.
A second strategy recently advocated by Arash Abizadeh (2008) relies on the principle of democratic legitimacy, holding that the exercise of coercive power is legitimate "only insofar as it is actually justified by and to the very people over whom it is exercised" (41).
(Of course, one could submit insofar as one finds an authority justified. This may be perfectly reasonable but it is not genuine submission.
Insofar, that is, as we are prima facie justified in thinking of something perceived as being a cow really to be cow, and insofar as no overriding cognition is forthcoming, we are entitled to think the perceived fact of its being a cow is real.
Deadwood, John From Cincinnati, Supernatural, Harper's Island and Justified all fall somewhere within that description insofar as my roles in them are concerned.
Reintroducing pre-Bush era tax rates on very high incomes is certainly justified, as is increasing capital gains and inheritance taxes insofar as the growth in income inequality is today so closely tied to the accumulation of wealth.
This yields the direct implication that, insofar as I will survive the death of my body, I am justified in anticipating post-mortem experiences.
On the other hand, the nonreductionist might insist that I am justified in having special concern for my future ego simply insofar as it is the only thing that will be me, regardless of whether or not Relation R is preserved by or within it.
