JUSTIFIED


Meaning of JUSTIFIED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

fully

Highlight the first block, and make it italic, fully justified and indented half an inch from the left.

Moxon's decision to drop Ashley Metcalfe and keep faith with Simon Kellett turned out to be fully justified .

Simeon's prudence in leaving Jerusalem was fully justified .

■ NOUN

belief

But it is not immediately obvious how to write a similar argument against the notion of justified belief .

Any foundationalist has a duty to make sense of the possibility that there be non-inferentially justified beliefs .

Some sceptical arguments attack the notion of knowledge directly but leave other related notions, crucially that of justified belief , untouched.

There was the justified belief in external manipulation - and yet there was dependence on those same manipulators.

The regress argument is an argument that as well as the inferentially justified beliefs , there must be some beliefs which are justified non-inferentially.

An initial diagnosis of the Gettier counter-examples may be that it is just luck that Henry's justified belief is true.

It follows from this that if there is no such thing as justified belief , there is no such thing as understanding.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A few of his complaints were justified .

I don't think Colin's criticisms were really justified .

The government feels justified in using military force to protect its own citizens.

The landlord may be justified in charging for any additional work that needs to be done.

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