ADJECTIVE
- providing justification
- attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
How To Use justificatory In A Sentence
- Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
- The holist program seems to entail that one can continue to add to beliefs about Beauty, where one is deploying the empirical concept, until one in a proper justificatory exercise acquires all the appropriately related beliefs about properties. Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Political theories are "descriptive, prescriptive and justificatory". Politics, Planning and the State
- It is the question of where moral philosophy is supposed to fit into our thinking: into our deliberative and justificatory practices. The Times Literary Supplement
- Political theories are "descriptive, prescriptive and justificatory". Politics, Planning and the State
- It is the question of where moral philosophy is supposed to fit into our thinking: into our deliberative and justificatory practices. The Times Literary Supplement
- Colonial resource acquisition relies on justificatory representations of the land. The Times Literary Supplement
- The case for the validity of a claim to authority must include justificatory considerations sufficient to outweigh such counter-reasons.
- To have knowledge, one must always be able, when necessary, to justify what one says, even though one need not always obtain one's knowledge via a self-conscious justificatory process.
- Colonial resource acquisition relies on justificatory representations of the land. The Times Literary Supplement