The latter trend indicates that a group is inclined to support those beliefs that supply justification for some course of action toward which they are already predisposed.
Along the same lines, Russia's clownish xenophobe, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has switched of late from lambasting America to treating it as an ally, probably because Washington now supplies justification for action against Chechnya and other Islamic thorns to Russia's south.
It cannot be denied that people very often can supply justification for their beliefs.
In this case e can supply justification for believing p only conditional on independent justification for believing q, so that the information-dependence template is satisfied.
Generalised epistemic conservatism says that for any e, p and q, if any doubt about q would defeat the prima facie justification from e for p, then e can supply justification for p only conditional on independent justification for q.
Davidson's idea is that a source can supply justification only if it has propositional content, so that the source is assessable as accurate or inaccurate, depending on whether the relevant proposition is true.
But this nationalism also conveniently supplied justification to squash rebellions from minorities such as the Karen, Kachin, Chin and Kayah – many of whom are not Buddhist – and to persecute them on account of their ethnicity.
I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.
Supplying a justification is a fairly sophisticated activity, and many children would be poorly equipped to engage in it.
The only alternatives to thinking this would be to say either that on this occasion, prior to supplying a justification, nothing justifies one's belief about Lincoln, though the belief itself is justified nonetheless; or that the belief is not justified, contrary to appearances.
No right of religious exercise supplies justification for that which kills.
