Justification

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Justification may refer to:

• Reason (argument)
• Justification (epistemology), a property of beliefs that a person has good reasons for holding
• Justification (jurisprudence), defence in a prosecution for a criminal offenses
• Justification (theology), God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God
• Justification (typesetting), a kind of typographic alignment
• Rationalization (making excuses), a phenomenon in psychology