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    Challenges→Justification and forgiveness are distinct moral concepts and ought to be distinguished.

    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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    Exculpatory function(as what both forgiveness and justification can do)
    The job or purpose of clearing someone of blame or guilt—basically, making them look less guilty.
    Forgiveness(as used in ethics)
    The act of letting go of anger or resentment toward someone who has hurt you, and choosing not to hold their wrongdoing against them anymore.
    Vindicate(as used in philosophical arguments)
    To prove or justify that something is correct or valid.
    blameworthy(Applied to agents who are morally responsible for doing something wrong)
    Deserving of hard treatment marked by resentment and indignation and the actions these emotions dispose us toward, such as censure, rebuke, and ostracism
    entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)

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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

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