Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being excused.
Neal and Milne earned excusedness for their faux pas in the last of the ninth.
1953 April 23, Bob Law, “Ferrarese Hurls 5-Hitter for 3rd Oak Win in Row”, in George Dunscomb, editor, Berkeley Daily Gazette, volume LXXVI, number 96, Berkeley, Calif., →OCLC, page 14, column 52 more examples
We may often wish, or need, to assess conduct for excusedness independently of an assessment of its wrongfulness.
2011 June, Mark McBride, “Justifications and Excuses: Mutually Exclusive?”, in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, volume 5, number 2, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of Southern California, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2026, footnote 9, page 2Indeed, once we draw the distinction between justification on one hand, and excusedness or blamelessness on the other, it feels intuitive, I think, to say that Radha’s belief meets the conditions for the latter, but not the former.
2020 July, Amia Srinivasan, “Radical Externalism”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 129, number 3, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2021, page 399
Origin
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