Though methodological and technological support for developing these systems has been achieved to a relatively high degree, means to provide objective identification and justification of automation opportunities are currently lacking.
Turning to the philosophy of science, it was clear by the end of the 1980s that the centreground was now occupied by a new realism, one that took on board lessons from general philosophy of language and epistemology, in particular referentialist semantics and a belief in the possibility of objective knowledge and justification.
There is no "objective and reasonable" justification for such blatant targeting of national and ethnic minorities.
The UN's view is that "lack of available resources does not constitute an objective and reasonable justification for a failure to remove differential treatment", the watchdog's submission adds.
It is crucial to point out that it is not necessarily unlawful to select on the basis of financial criteria, providing there is an objective and reasonable justification for doing so and that the means employed are proportionate.
Lord Thomas said the first question for the court was "whether the secretary of state was able to show that there was objective and reasonable justification for that discrimination which was not manifestly without reasonable foundation".
According to the ruling, the Secretary of State: failed to establish objective and reasonable justification for the discriminatory effect of the statutory criteria Ministers lodged an appeal, and advised local authorities to withold benefit payments pending the outcome of the appeal (the appeal which it dropped on Monday).
Mr Justice Knowles suggested that the "additional condition" had an "objective and reasonable justification".
In its verdict (Dutch) the court agreed that preventing Iran from obtaining certain types of technologies is legitimate, but said that there is "no objective and reasonable justification" for targeting all Iranians, and Iranians only.
If, as in Mises's argument, an economic agent has no extrinsic range of intersubjective and commensurable values that is, the numerical market prices which are set independently by others—, then he has no rational and objective justification for choosing between alternative courses of action.
Richmond Campbell develops these ideas further, arguing that armed with realist conceptions of truth and objective justification, we can explain (without circularity) how feminist biases can lead us closer to the truth within contexts of systematic gender bias in epistemic communities (Campbell 2001 , 1998.
