“If you wish to become a philosopher, the first thing to realise is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing: And Other Essays…
There is “no reasonable justification” for Taiwan’s exclusion from the World Health Assembly later this month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.
Why Japan is the most interesting story in global economics right now
Washington Post (blog)
Through the last six years of rumbling global financial crisis, Japan has been an afterthought. In 2008, the world's second-largest (soon to be third-largest) economy was still dealing with the consequences of its own banking crisis from the 1990s, its ...
Washington Post (blog)
Through the last six years of rumbling global financial crisis, Japan has been an afterthought. In 2008, the world's second-largest (soon to be third-largest) economy was still dealing with the consequences of its own banking crisis from the 1990s, its ...
Stacey Cramp for The New York Times
At Camp, It’s Not Grub, It’s Cuisine
By JAN HOFFMAN
At many summer camps, the food in the dining hall is no longer an
afterthought and cooking is just as much an activity as water-skiing.
Such farms, which offer a share of their harvest in exchange for a seasonal financial commitment, are now a mainstay of the farm-to-table movement. But it’s no surprise that the idea found such fertile ground in the Berkshires, said Barbara Zheutlin, director of Berkshire Grown, an organization dedicated to the region’s agriculture. Her group is another legacy of the vibrant, community-oriented food activism that was well under way by the mid-1980s.
This quiet history has no better modern incarnation than Susan Sellew, 60, maker of Monterey Chevre. Ms. Sellew, a native of New Marlborough, laughingly traces her skills to an affliction of “Old MacDonald” syndrome in the 1960s and ’70s. Determined not to buy anything she could learn to make herself, she was soon preparing her own honey, maple syrup, sausages and soap.
Goats were a source of food, but Ms. Sellew fell in love with their mischievous nature and obvious intelligence.
“They’re like cats,” she said. “They believe everything they do is just perfect.” Making cheese from their milk was an afterthought, “the perfect justification to keep more goats,” she said.
『佔領運動爭取的是真普選，為甚麼真普選對香港（的將來）那麼重要呢？如果只是說「因為民主很重要」，未免過於簡略，而對於不認為民主重要的香港人，這個答案甚至完全沒有說服力。要說服這些香港人，難道要向他們講解民主的工具價值（instrumental values）和內在價值（intrinsic values）嗎？但這種抽象的論述恐怕也難以改變普羅大眾的看法。然而，這種論述並不必要，因為雨傘佔領運動的發展，本身就是一個證成（justification）的過程，證明爭取真普選的重要，也顯示了非用較激烈的大規模行動不可。』
jus|tify
VERB
[ WITH OBJECT]
『佔領運動爭取的是真普選，為甚麼真普選對香港（的將來）那麼重要呢？如果只是說「因為民主很重要」，未免過於簡略，而對於不認為民主重要的香港人，這個答案甚至完全沒有說服力。要說服這些香港人，難道要向他們講解民主的工具價值（instrumental values）和內在價值（intrinsic values）嗎？但這種抽象的論述恐怕也難以改變普羅大眾的看法。然而，這種論述並不必要，因為雨傘佔領運動的發展，本身就是一個證成（justification）的過程，證明爭取真普選的重要，也顯示了非用較激烈的大規模行動不可。』
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒʌstɪfʌɪ
/
Definition of justify in English:
VERB ( justifies, justifying, justified)
Origin
Middle English (in the senses 'administer justice to' and 'inflict a judicial penalty on'): from Old French justifier, from Christian Latin justificare 'do justice to', from Latinjustus (see just).
Derivatives
Pronunciation: /dʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n /
NOUN
1The action of showing something to be right orreasonable:the justification of revolutionary actionhe made a speech in justification of his career
afterthought
n.
An idea, response, or explanation that occurs to one after an event or decision.
as an afterthought she said “Thank you.”
An idea, response, or explanation that occurs to one after an event or decision.
as an afterthought she said “Thank you.”
[名][U][C]
2 （計画・設計などの）追加［手直し］部分.
3 付け足し（の物・人）.grub[grub]
- 発音記号[grʌ'b]
[名]
1 幼虫, 地虫.
2 無精な人；((米))いやな仕事をこつこつやる人.
━━[動]（〜bed, 〜・bing）(他)
2 ((俗))…に食物を与える.
4 〈記録・データなどを〉骨おって手に入れる.
━━(自)
1 ((略式))掘る；掘って（…を）捜す((for ...))；（…を）くまなく捜し回る((about, around/for ...)).
2 あくせく働く；熱心に研究する.
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