Justification
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- Theory of justification Theory of justification is a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs. Epistemologists are concerned with various epistemic features of belief, which include the ideas of justification, warrant, rationality, and probability. Of these four terms, the term that has been most widely used and, a part of epistemology that attempts to understand the justification of propositions and beliefs
- Justification (jurisprudence), defense in a prosecution for a criminal offense
- Justification (theology) In Christian theology, justification is God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God. The concept of justification occurs in many books of the Old and New Testaments, God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
- Justification (typesetting) In typesetting, justification is the typographic alignment setting of text or images within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right margin. Text set this way is said to be "justified", a kind of typographic alignment
- Rationalization (psychology) In psychology and logic, rationalization is the process of constructing a logical justification for a belief, decision, action or lack thereof that was originally arrived at through a different mental process. It is a defense mechanism in which perceived controversial behaviors or feelings are explained in a rational or logical manner to avoid the, one of the defense mechanisms proposed by Sigmund Freud
See also
- Justify (disambiguation)
- Cognitive dissonance Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying. It is one of
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