When to use "justifications" (plural)?

Question

In my book, I came across the phrase "some justification".

I googled for it, "justification" can be countable or uncountable, but I have never heard that people used "justifications".

When should we treat the word as a countable noun and use "justifications" (the plural form)?

I did some research here but couldn't find any examples.

Answer 1

Here, some means

some
1. being an undetermined or unspecified one

So there isn't an issue regarding plurality: justification can be singular.

You can use justification as a plural like you would with good reason.

Here is an example in the same sense as your example. I don't know why there were budget cuts. There must be some good reason for the recent budget cuts →

1. There must be some justification for the recent budget cuts.

There can also be multiple undetermined justifications. I don't know why there were budget cuts. There must be some good reasons for the recent budget cuts →

2. There must be some justifications for the recent budget cuts.

If there is just one justification for a particular action, then justification (singular) is correct.

3. We have just one justification for the recent budget cuts.

If there are more than one reasons for a particular action, then justifications (plural) is correct. For example, imagine that there are ten reasons for the budget cuts, but only three are presented: here are some reasons for the recent budget cuts→

4. Here are some justifications for the recent budget cuts.

Here's a headline I found online that uses justifications.

18 Solid Justifications for Cloud Computing -- and 10 Situations Where It Doesn't Work