"Zero Dark Thirty," a movie by Kathryn Bigelow that opens next week, has raised questions about whether it properly portrays torture's role in the search for bin Laden, and the extent to which it offers a justification for the torture of terrorists.
In 1975, Landes and Posner offered a justification for the independence of the judiciary that is often understood as a normative theory of adjudication within the tradition of constitutional political economy.
None of the studies in which methods were not appropriate for species offered a justification.
When he offered a pragmatic justification of his specification of the force of gravity independently of how that force might be explained he was acting as one who sought to develop an experimentally confirmed science independent of the kinds of ultimate explanation sought by the mechanical philosophers.
Just a few months prior, the 2018 Emmy co-host had offered a weak justification of disgraced comedian Louis CK's return to the comedy scene; this time, his comments about Hart appeared to be grounded in the racial anxiety of seeing one of Hollywood's least controversial black comedians (until now) felled.
We reveal a tradeoff of the interactions between internal and external influences, which offers a theoretical justification for the efficient composition of complex processes out of non-trivial elementary processes or functional modes.
Some contend that accounts of rational belief can and should be ultimately justified on epistemic grounds; Joyce (1998), for instance, offers a non-pragmatic justification of probabilism that rests on the notion of overall "expected distance from the truth" of one's beliefs.
Why? What's the point?" We don't hear much from the super-rich, except a passing few insights from Richard Berman, an exhausted-looking 70-year-old venture capitalist, who offers a hilariously plaintive justification of the system: "Without big rewards, people like me aren't going to work 15-20 hours a day in order to get rich".
If this last point is right, then one might reasonably argue that the fact that knowledge entails justification offers a way of dealing with the primary value problem, since there would now be a property of knowledge which mere true belief lacks and which affords greater value to knowledge over mere true belief.
Suppose, for example, that East Asian culture offers a different concept of justification than the one that is embedded in Western commonsense thought (assuming for sake of argument that there is a single concept of justification in each culture).
