the end justifies the means

Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve morally right outcomes.

torturing prisoners to save millions of citizen lives, so the end justifies the means

by Heffer101 May 9, 2007

justified true belief

A belief is the acceptance of a proposition. A true belief is one that has been examined by the believer and remains a belief. We often accept propositions, only to discover later that we were wrong. Being wrong can be the result of many things: lack of other knowledge that would have caused disbelief; a persuasive argument that you later reject; the proposition was rational-sounding but it was a fallacy.

A rational proposition that is not a fallacy has justification, that is, it is 'justified'. This means the logic is sound and it has a correspondence to facts of reality. (See 'correspondence truth').

Therefore, a 'justified true belief' is one that has been shown to be logically sound, or is accepted as logically sound.

It may or may not be 'defeasible', in other words, defeatable, by a better argument. The Copernican Revolution was the defeat of Catholic justified true belief, by the arguments of Galileo who used the mathematics of Copernicus. (See 'defeator arguments' or 'defeasors')

President Kennedy had a justified true belief that we could get to the moon, because he was shown the proof, without which his belief could not have been justified.

by ceclark February 9, 2012

Justifiable Blow Off

The act you perform when you blow off your homies for a hot ass chick when deep down your homies are being jealous of you cause you're kickin it with the girl they want which in conclusion. Its a justifiable blow off

Andy: so they are definitely mad I pulled a justifiable blow off, but I really don't give a fuck
Kevin: hey, its all good, gotta blow off the homies every now and then for a chick
Andy:oh, it was definitely worth it!!!

by Ya Boy Trax August 9, 2010

STOP JUSTIFYING YOUR PRESENCE

I (EYE) (AYE) Y(AI) HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HERE and Y0U

UU YU YOO YOOOH!!!! have the LEFT to be HEAR.

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H(AI) H(A)I ROGER HODGSON OF SUPERTRAMP

STOP JUSTIFYING YOUR PRESENCE I (EYE) (AYE)Y(AI) HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HERE and you UU YU UOO YOOOH have the LEFT to be HEAR.

by ABROGATION SELF-CALUMNIATION December 19, 2021

MORE justified

Oh!

Hym "So I'M MORE justifed! Because I at least gave them a warning. So I'm MORE justified. You also don't know the pretext. Fo all you know they have been following that guy around and doing that for years. 7 of them to be exact. But if a warning is all it would have taken to justify the shooting (to you) then what I would say is that he should have known better. But whatever. Still funny to think I can just walk up to the guy antagonizes me at work, send him where he belongs, and get away with it. I dig it. So, yeah. This is totally worth it at this point. If I dtay the course I might just end up getting to have my cake and eat it too."

by Hym Iam October 3, 2023

Justified

Anything whether it is considered right or wrong.

Neo-Nazi: The Holocaust wasn't real, I swear!!!
Liberal: Denying a war crime isn't justified by the law, you fool!

by Karma will get you! April 3, 2022

Justify

(In typography terms) To adjust the spacing of words and letters in a line of text so that both the left and right margins are straight.

Please justify the text in this paragraph.

by Random Human on Earth May 29, 2025