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Justification

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Justification may refer to:

  • Justification (epistemology), a property of beliefs that a person has good reasons for holding
  • Justification (jurisprudence), defence in a prosecution for a criminal offense
  • Justification (theology), God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
  • Justification (typesetting), a kind of typographic alignment
  • Formal proof, an object that justifies the validity of a formalized statement
  • Justification may also refer to ad hoc hypotheses and explanations
  • Rationalization (making excuses), a phenomenon in psychology
  • Genocide justification

See also

  • Justify
  • Justified
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