justificatory

• “Following hard on the ‘perils of pop philosophy’ article, I find it ironic that this commentary veers hard into the raw self-justificatory reductio that was lambasted only yesterday.”

  Will Saletan’s Moderation

• “Nor can a “paradigm” be wrong, if you want to separate the hegemony from its justificatory strategies.”

  Matthew Yglesias » System-Building

• “He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'A Churchillian Defense of the Markets'

• “To outline the justification:(1) The police reasonably believe that torturing the terrorist will probably save thousands of innocent lives; (2) the police know that there is no other way to save those lives; (3) the threat to life is imminent; (4) the thousands about to be murdered are innocent -- the terrorist has no good, let alone decisive, justificatory moral reason for murdering them as if one could possibly exist -- RW.”

  The Huffington Post: Russ Wellen: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb (Read: Nuclear) Scenario

• “Exactly, this is all an overlong discussion of the self-justificatory strategies used by people with a vested interest in making their industry relevant and therefore profitable.”

  Focus Group: Undecided Voters Care Much More About Character Than Issues

• “If they are not wholly arbitrary, there must be a rationale, a theory, a justificatory structure for distinguishing what precedents are to be overturned and what precedents are to be respected.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Commentary on the Briefing in McDonald v. City of Chicago

• “For this reason, I think that the self-ownership thesis cannot be justified by natural law or ethical intuitionism, but instead must be understood as a generalization about a whole set of intuitions or specifications of the natural law as a contractualist, I think it must be justified as a rough generalization of a wide array of justificatory relationships.”

  EconLog Book Club Round-up: Ask Me Any Question About For a New Liberty, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “It becomes the burden of those who advocate the act in question to identify the special exculpatory or justificatory circumstances that make what tends to be a wrongful rights violation either not a rights violation in this case, or a justified rights violation.”

  Is There a Right to Immigrate?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Does all this self-justificatory aggressiveness, all the messenger-shooting and "whataboutery" How dare you criticise us!”

  On Groupthink and False Obedience

• “The coherentist might hope to reply to this problem by claiming that there is still a justificatory web: the belief is a memory belief and one might believe that most of one's memory beliefs are true; therefore, this belief is likely to be true and is hence justified.”

  Epistemological Problems of Memory

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