Peace activists dominated the meeting, repeatedly asking the BAE board to give their moral justification for supplying weapons to countries accused of human rights abuses.
For instance Wright resumes the information dependence template by saying that the justification from e for p cannot transmit to p's consequence q 'if the justification for p supplied by e depends in the first place on prior and independent justification for q' (Wright 2002, 336, edited).
The latter trend indicates that a group is inclined to support those beliefs that supply justification for some course of action toward which they are already predisposed.
It cannot be denied that people very often can supply justification for their beliefs.
In this case e can supply justification for believing p only conditional on independent justification for believing q, so that the information-dependence template is satisfied.
Generalised epistemic conservatism says that for any e, p and q, if any doubt about q would defeat the prima facie justification from e for p, then e can supply justification for p only conditional on independent justification for q.
Along the same lines, Russia's clownish xenophobe, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has switched of late from lambasting America to treating it as an ally, probably because Washington now supplies justification for action against Chechnya and other Islamic thorns to Russia's south.
No right of religious exercise supplies justification for that which kills.
If there were credible signs that inflation was coming to a standstill and that deflation threatened, the bank would have a strong justification for pumping up the money supply.
At the end of each year Balfour decided how much money he and his cronies needed, and the company's turnover was inflated on paper to supply the justification for massive pay-outs.
On an occasion when the belief is occurrent one may be able to supply a justification for it.
