Collocations withjustification
These are words often used in combination withjustification.
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adequate justification
But if this were the case, how could the existence of the human-rights-friendly elements of the tradition be an adequate justification for human rights?
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ample justification
As this review has shown, there is now ample justification for its reinstatement as an all-pervasive causal factor.
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compelling justification
Hence, each piece of assigned reading and every written assignment should have clear and compelling justification.
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empirical justification
The current empirical justification for this strategy is poor.
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ethical justification
Using collective action to maintain professional control without concern about the intended ways that control might be used is weak ethical justification.
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historical justification
This theory of paradigm-change has the advantage of redressing its relativism by locating the observer within a long-enduring paradigm of scientific rationality, which thus obtains contemporary historical justification.
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intellectual justification
Even though some of his formulations were exaggerated or absurd, eastern industrialists overlooked minor deficiencies in their search for protectionism's intellectual justification.
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legal justification
There are even theories of legal justification that deny the logic of override.
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logical justification
That is the view of those who see the seat disappearing arbitrarily and without logical justification.
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moral justification
Traditional condescension is based on the premise that a ritualized recognition of existing authority relationships can work toward their moral justification.
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philosophical justification
With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.
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possible justification
See footnote 15 for a possible justification of this latter assumption.
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primary justification
With its apparent popularity decline, the broad category of dance music broadcasting had lost its primary justification of boosting wartime morale.
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principal justification
This is the principal justification for examining a variety of research methods in the following review.
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rational justification
Even in games with blindingly obvious payoff-dominant focal points, players have no rational justification for choosing the corresponding strategies.
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reasonable justification
What is needed is an argument for the normative significance of the idea of reasonable justification.
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scientific justification
The most common design approach is to copy the geometry of insects and mammals with little or no scientific justification.
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sufficient justification
Still, cohering with our tangled moral intuitions might not be sufficient justification for favouring disjunctivism.
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theoretical justification
The point of this position is to provide theoretical justification for limiting individual responsibility, which rests on the following idea.
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ultimate justification
He is concerned with the metaethical issues of the ultimate justification of moral judgements.
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