legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method

Obviously, in these three types of dramaticity, the parties use narratives involving national identity by invoking the cultural icons most favorable for legitimizing their interests.

Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer […]

Liberal arts and community colleges as well as other teaching-centered institutions have always promoted high standards of teaching excellence. But time was that no one really cared much what instructors in more research-oriented universities did in the classroom, as long as it was legal.