"This morning's developments show that a further delay [in pulling out soldiers] is no longer justifiable," the Austrian statement said.
If moral statements are justifiable, then they have a cognitive character in the sense that they are correct or not depending on how they fare in reasonable discourse.
Popper's answer is that 'basic statements are not justifiable by our immediate experiences, but are … accepted by an act, a free decision'.
In this case it is BP, presumably because there is no evidence that George Bush was scuba diving near the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20th.Joe Hoerter Los AngelesSIR – I have a three-word response to your statement that "America's justifiable fury with BP is degenerating into a broad attack on business": about bloody time ("Obama v BP", June 19th).
Yet we live in a time when coming out often requires that one be prepared to defend their position, as if it is in some way a political statement or a religiously justifiable way of being.
The governor delivered a forceful statement of the public's justifiable anger, and an overwhelming number of legislators have called for her termination.
It is possible that some journal articles are worded over-cautiously, and in these cases stronger or more direct statements in press releases might be justifiable (although our results showed that they are rarely explicitly justified in press releases, see supplementary section SI10).
It also makes some very confused statements about race and identity, justifiable points about regional pride mingling with base prejudice.
The statement was accurate and the optimism justifiable Thursday when the Knicks introduced Amar'e Stoudemire, their sparkly new power forward.
"Nato operations that inflict human and material losses to civilians can in no way be justifiable, acceptable and tolerable," Karzai said in a statement.
In another recent nationwide study which was done in 2007, it was found that that nine out of ten women agreed with the statement that "wife-beating" was never justifiable and, nine out of ten women said "yes" to the question of whether the courts should "penalize" the men who exercise violence against their wives [ 2].
