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    Rawls's reflective equilibrium establishes that justice can be provisionally realized when principles and considered judgments achieve sufficient coherence under idealized conditions.

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    Key Terms

    Justice(Utilitarian account of justice; contrasted with non-utility-based theories)
    A name for certain classes of moral rules which concern the essentials of human well-being more nearly than other rules for the guidance of life, carrying more absolute obligation.
    Provisionally realized(describing the status of justice in this theory)
    Achieved temporarily or conditionally—true for now based on current information, but open to revision if circumstances change.
    Rawls(as the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
    John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.

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    considered judgments(Rawlsian moral epistemology)
    Moral judgments solicited under conditions where people are calm and have adequate information about the cases under consideration, used as inputs to Rawlsian reflective equilibrium
    idealized conditions(used to discuss how philosophers sometimes use unrealistic scenarios to separate true from false claims)
    Imaginary perfect situations that don't exist in the real world, created to test ideas or theories in their purest form.
    principles(Explicitly equated with 'invariant reasons' in the passage)
    Invariant reasons — moral considerations that apply consistently regardless of particular circumstances
    reflective equilibrium(Introduced by Goodman in the context of justifying induction)
    A methodological state reached when considered judgments and the inference rules that best explain those judgments are mutually coherent, achieved by iteratively revising either judgments or rules when conflicts arise

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