Sentence examples for positive justification from inspiring English sources

And in the fourth place, in the teeth of the prevailing skepticism on this topic, he developed an original and boldly positive justification of inductive inference.

Clause (i) ensures that the subject has some measure of positive justification for h if she had no justification for it, it would be more reasonable for her to withhold with respect to h.

We must now turn to 'positive' retributivist accounts, which find punishment's positive justification in its relationship to the past commission of a crime (but see Berman 2011 for an argument that some recent versions of retributivism actually turn it into a consequentialist theory).

Side-constrained instrumentalists avoid that kind of objection, since the side-constraints that they recognise are precisely intended to rule out such injustice, such infringements of individual rights: but there is a serious question about their conception of criminal law whether we should see it simply as a technique whose positive justification lies solely in its beneficial effects.

Research niches in Forestry are predominantly established using gap indications and positive justifications, thus showing (i) considerable similarity compared to those in Wildlife Behaviour, and (ii) notable difference compared to those in Civil Engineering.

In using an analytic approach that was sensitive to subtle methylation associations across gene networks necessarily results in some false positives (for justification see Additional files).

Of course the mere rejection of foundationalism is not itself an alternative theory because it leaves us with no positive account of justification.

Is a speaker S trustworthy for hearer H only if H has positive evidence or justification for the reliability of this particular speaker S? This is far from clear.

Indeed, both tasks produced RT distributions that appeared more normal in shape and lacked a positive skew, adding justification to the assumption of a dynamic bias in the execution process.

They chose this more stringent cut-off value to reduce the possibility of false positives; a valid justification, although it limits how comparable their results are with studies employing the Petersen criteria.

Prediction of monogenic drug responses is relatively simple, involving detection of underlying mutations; due to rarity of these events and incomplete penetrance, however, prospective tests based on genotype will have high false-positive rates, plus pharmacoeconomics will require justification.