If forgiveness entails revising one's moral assessment of the agent (e.g., seeing them as no longer blameworthy), then forgiveness partially vindicates the person, overlapping with justification's exculpatory function.
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Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
moral assessment(Used to argue that freedom is a necessary condition for being subject to praise or blame, including the assessment 'perfectly good')
The evaluation of an agent's behavior as morally good or bad, which presupposes that the agent acted freely