Definition of "justificatory" []

• Providing justification. (adjective)

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• "Following hard on the ‘perils of pop philosophy’ article, I find it ironic that this commentary veers hard into the raw self-justificatory reductio that was lambasted only yesterday."
• "Nor can a “paradigm” be wrong, if you want to separate the hegemony from its justificatory strategies."
• "He speaks and writes with a moral seriousness that bears no trace of self-justificatory stridency."