Wikipedia: History of Theory of justification

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Thus, justification is a normative notion. That means that it has to do with norms, rights, responsibilities, obligations, and so forth. A concept is normative iff it is a concept regarding or depending on the norms, or obligations and permissions (very broadly construed), involved in human conduct.

The concept of justification is definitely normative, because it is a concept regarding the norms of belief.

Thus, justification is a normative notion. That means that it has to do with norms, rights, responsibilities, obligations, and so forth. The standard deffinition is that a concept is normative iff it is a concept regarding or depending on the norms, or obligations and permissions (very broadly construed), involved in human conduct. It is gennerally accepted that the concept of justification is normative, because just because it is deffined as a concept regarding the norms of belief.

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