More specifically, he argues that knowledge is what he calls a "Swiss Army Concept", in the sense that when we ascribe knowledge we thereby ascribe several valuable sub-concepts Weiner lisub-concepts Weineration, persistence, stabilistsof justruthation, and safety (i.e., that one could not have easily been wrong).
Initially that served to protect valuable timber stands; today's justification is protecting private homes.
"Sheffield is losing, we are losing, an amazingly valuable natural resource and the justification for it seems as flimsy as an autumn leaf.
The answer to this question lies in the fact that many want to regard truth and thereby true belief as being the fundamental epistemic goal, in the sense that ultimately it is only truth that is epistemically valuable (so, for example, while justification is epistemically valuable, it is only epistemically valuable because of how it is a guide to truth).
Limited market availability (i.e., liver CEUS is not approved by FDA in the USA) is also not a justification to eliminate a valuable diagnostic tool from the algorithm.
Even without justifications, students' responses would provide valuable insight into how they view relationships between numbers.
His treatment of justifications for suppression is especially valuable".
In this view, all classifications of the sciences, or divisions of their subject matter, were seen as artificial, valuable at best only administratively, but without philosophical justification.
Intrinsic justifications point to democracy as a valuable method of decision-making in-and-of-itself.
This turned a valuable fringe benefit (729 guns discovered last year) into a justification for excess (582,911 stops).
It can of course be argued that knowledge is valuable for its own sake and needs no pragmatic justification.
