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Interpretation vs Justification - What's the difference?

interpretation | justification |

As nouns the difference between interpretation and justification

is that interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction while justification is a reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

interpretation

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Noun

  • (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
  • the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
  • (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
  • Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''
  • (uncountable) The power of explaining.
  • (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
  • (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
  • (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
  • (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
  • See also

    * (logic) valuation

    justification

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
  • (typography) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
  • Antonyms

    * conviction * condemnation