Sentence examples for picture of justification from inspiring English sources

Thus, the rationalist picture of justification faces severe skeptical challenges.

Rather than conceiving the structure of our knowledge on the model of Euclidean geometry, with its basic axioms and derived theorems, these epistemologists favor a holistic picture of justification which does not distinguish between basic or foundational and non-basic or derived beliefs, treating rather all our beliefs as equal members of a "web of belief" (Quine and Ullian, 1970).

In this vein, some philosophers (notably Sarah Paul (2009)) have influentially argued that the Cognitivist is committed to an unattractive picture of the justification of intention formation.

Some moral realists, particularists, reject the general picture of systematic justification just described and yet argue that, when it comes to the role of observation, moral claims are nonetheless actually on a par with non-moral claims (Dancy 1993).

For psychiatry's self-understanding, societal image, and acceptance by patients and their families, it seems important to tackle these issues so as to get a coherent and transparent picture of the justification and limits of psychiatric paternalism.

An obvious problem with this picture is that the community-wide process of justification must still be carried out in some fashion by individual actors.

Surely, part of the motivation for the distortion of reality is that the warped picture provides justification for the elite's lack of compassion for those who suffer under their domination.

This picture is further enriched with Lotze's distinction of justification (logical) from genesis (psychological).

More important for Kuhn was the way his account of the context of justification diverged from the standard picture.

From an epistemological point of view both Lowe and Hale provide a picture of our knowledge of modality that sharply contrasts with accounts that take conceivability or intuition to be our fundamental source of justification for believing metaphysically modal truths.

Analysts said the military government was trying to paint a picture of a family enmeshed in corruption, a justification for the coup.