Sentence examples for justify as from inspiring English sources

But Davidson took his reasons to "rationalize" or justify as well as to explain action, and many philosophers subsequently concluded that the two kinds of reasons had to be closely, conceptually, connected.

And since that conception of pleasure serves not only to explain expressive behavior but also to justify as well as explain action, a connection to value or at least to some kind of evaluation, however implicit, seems close to that conception's importance and point.

Yet this form of governance became harder to justify as the internet became more commercial.

Many of our buildings are really too small to justify as rentals.

The payments have become harder to justify as farm income has risen to historic levels.

There are as many arguments to justify as vilify his put-down.

Some comics argue that rape jokes are justified as long as the joke's on them.

Again, this spending was justified as far as I'm concerned.

But the maximality principle may seem to be independently justified as well.

It's as if all manner of barbarity can be justified as long as its true nature can be disguised.

This approximation is justified as long as we consider only small deviations from the equilibrium.