Economists and Congressional aides on both sides of the aisle said it could give Republicans important, if somewhat flawed, new ammunition in favor of tax cuts, including a justification for their assertion that tax cuts can generate new revenue to offset their direct cost to the federal budget.
The trend was blamed on cost-cutting by some, but the government says there was no justification for that assertion.
Whatever the justification for such assertions, it must nevertheless be recognized that neither of these authors suggests that aesthetic appeal or art are synonyms for superfluity.
There is no scientific justification for Ms. Goodman's assertion in her letter ["Even 'Background' Levels of Radiation Are Harmful," June 25] that "very low doses of background radiation probably account for 25percentt or more of a vast group of afflictions that occur because of inherited predisposition".
This eliminates any justification an assertion might receive by being part of a group of cohering, mutually-supportive assertions.
Now go back, for a moment, to the schools inquiry commission and look at its confident assertion that there was no justification for "indiscriminate gratuitous instruction".
The one justification for inclusion of the XFEL data is the assertion that the dataset is damage free.
He has turned 9/11 into the justification for a costly war that was based on unproven assertions and that has gone poorly (in part because of the lack of any responsible planning for the post-invasion period).
From this perspective the assertion that markets are efficient serves as an ideological justification for deregulation, while the acknowledgement that individuals sometimes act irrationally merely distracts attention from the larger problem.
Justification Logic is a formal logical framework which incorporates epistemic assertions \(t : F\), standing for '\(t\) is a justification for \(F\)'.
But one might hold out hope that some justification for a categorial scheme could be given that did not rest entirely on the unjustified assertion of some deep correspondence between linguistic and metaphysical structures.
