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Showing 1 to 20 of 1171 for “"Justification"”.
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The Justification of Deontology
Agent-centered restrictions are widely accepted both in commonsense morality and across social and legal institutions, making it all the more striking that we have yet to ground them in a compelling theoretical rationale. This dissertation amounts to an effort to fill that gap by seeking out a new …
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Justification in Lukan Theology
… Luke has a conscious and detectable theology of justification which can be seen explicitly in Luke 18:9-14 but subtly permeates the narrative. After a brief history of research, the dissertation includes two exegetical chapters dealing with Luke 18:9-14 and its immediate context. Next, the theme …
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Conrad's Theory of "Justification"
… goes beyond Adler’s statement in his theory of "justification." He aims to present his characters so that their actions and thoughts seem inevitable within the narrative. An action is "justified” when it is the only thing that could have happened, given the fictional framework. Conrad was very …
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Epistemic Rationality and Justification
… is that epistemic rationality is different from justification. While justified beliefs must be likely to be true, a belief with low probability can nevertheless be epistemically rational because informativeness is an important factor to consider in assessing the epistemic rationality of a belief. …
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A justification for rights
… One chapter is devoted to arguing against the justifications for rights advanced by Immanuel Kant, Alan Gewirth and John Rawls. Another chapter shows that the problem with utilitarianism is that it cannot satisfactorily accommodate rights. This thesis claims that morality must be connected to …
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Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
The doctrine of justification tells how the saving grace of God in Christ can be actualized in the believers. Because of the very importance of this doctrine, disputes broke out between Augustine and Pelagius, later in the medieval period, and most importantly during the Reformation period - which …
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BASIC LOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ITS JUSTIFICATION
This thesis contributes to the area within the philosophy of logic that concerns epistemological questions about fundamental logical laws. The state of the literature has been dominated by meaning-theoretic approaches that attempt to answer such questions in terms of conditions for understanding …
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Justification One Hundred Years After Paul
… the following question: how did the doctrine of justification fare one hundred years after Paul's death (c. AD 165)? The thesis argued is that Paul's view of justification by faith is present in the second century, which particularly challenges T. F. Torrance's long-held notion that the Apostolic …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… open position as to how people might make their justifications, though with the expectation that they might do so in varying ways reflecting their own disparate experiences. An exploratory approach was therefore adopted, involving idiographic, qualitative methodology. Grounded theory was selected …
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The Justification of Special Admissions Policies
… the problem of presenting a satisfactory justification for special admissions policies using race or sex as often decisive criteria for entrance to higher educational and professional school opportunities. The issue of special admissions policies has engaged debate and has eluded any …
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A Critical Examination of Justification Theory
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The Truth Norm Account of Justification
… I argue that the truth norm can indeed explain justification in the way I’ve outlined. I do this by answering four criticisms that have been made of the claim that belief is subject to a truth norm. These criticisms claim that a truth norm should be rejected because, in turn, a truth norm cannot …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
… of truth. The focus of this thesis is on the justification project which attempts to identify a characteristic which is possessed by most true propositions and not possessed by most false propositions. In other words, what it is that makes certain statements about the past ‘true’ or ‘not …
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Defeasible justification for the KLM Framework
… propose a theoretical framework for defeasible justification using the KLM Framework and a software tool that implements the framework. The theoretical framework is based on an existing theoretical framework for Description Logic (DL) which we translate to PL. The defeasible justification …
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Laser Cutting Machine: Justification of initial costs
… system and cutting time were involved in justification of the initial cost of a laser-cutting machine. Comparative statistics on appropriate factors accurately determine and justify the initial cost of a laser-cutting machine.
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An Ethical Justification of Weight Loss Surgery
This dissertation provides an ethical justification of surgical weight loss interventions for the treatment of obesity. Situating obesity as not merely a public health concern but also fundamentally a problem of clinical medicine confronting individual patients and physicians, the dissertation …
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