JUSTIFICATION
The term is a translation of the Greek Dikaiosis [Latin justification] originally a technical legal term derived from the verb "to make someone righteous. In Christian theology either.1. The act by which god moves a person from the state of sin [injustice] to the state of grace [justice] 2 The change in a person's conditions as he moves from state of sin to state of righteousness.
The property ascribed to a belief in virtue of satisfying certain evaluative norms concerning what a person ought to believe. Such norms measure the goodness of a belief in so far as we are interested in epistemic goals such as attaining truth and avoiding error.
An important question to ask with respect to any approach to epistemology is what implication it has for skepticism? Some accounts of epistemic justification preclude while others do not precluded ones belief being justified but mostly false .Another issue is the degree to which the belief of others people affect what an individual is justified in believing.
All theories of epistemic justification must find a way of acknowledging that much of what each of us knows derives from what others have told us .The term justification belongs to a cluster of normative term that also includes rational reasonable and warranted. All these are commonly used in epistemology but these is not general agreed way of understanding them.
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