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....
Justification in jurisprudence is not the same as an excuse. A justification sets forth an exception to the prohibition of committing certain offenses....
In Christian theology, justification is God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteousness before God. The concept of justification occurs in many books of the Old and New Testaments....
In typesetting, justification is the typographic alignment setting of typography or s within a column or "measure" to align along both the left and right Margin ....
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....
The term justify has many meanings:* To validate one's statement with positive evidence. See justification.* Justification in typesetting, i.e., to align text horizontally or vertically so that the first and last characters of every line, or the first and last line of the text, are aligned with their corresponding margins....
Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The "ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitude and beliefs, and also the awareness of one's behavior....
