Warrantedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being warranted. uncountable

    "He has said “truth is one thing, warranted belief another”, and when talking about rival theories he says we (1992, pp. 94, 100) “can still be even handed about the cachet of warrantedness, if not of truth”."

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equitygive-and-takejustificationlawfulnesslegalitymeasure for measure

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"He has said “truth is one thing, warranted belief another”, and when talking about rival theories he says we (1992, pp. 94, 100) “can still be even handed about the cachet of warrantedness, if not of truth”."

Etymology

From warranted + -ness.

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