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casuistry
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Casuistry , or case-based reasoning , is a method in applied ethics and jurisprudence , often characterised as a critique of principle - or rule-based reasoning. The word "casuistry" is derived from the Latin casus (meaning "case"). Casuistry is reasoning ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of answer practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics. 2 (context pejorative English) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Certainly, Mr Patten, a Roman Catholic, ought to be able to appreciate casuistry . ▪ The considerable public and social implications of this piece of casuistry require no comment. ▪ The Minister was engaged in nothing more or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casuistry \Cas"u*ist*ry\, a. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, ...
Usage examples of casuistry.
Without Western materialism, money-thinking, and liberalism, the entry of the outsider into Western public life would have been as impossible as the mastery of Talmudic casuistry would have been to a Westerner.
Her head was acute to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films.
He and Adrian, and Lady Blandish, took tea in the library, and sat till a late hour discussing casuistries relating mostly to the Apple-disease.
The third is a mass of baseless theories, philosophical casuistry and feeble attempts to offer explanations of things that could not be explained.
He left the brief interlude of misplaced casuistry behind him and went after Cleo Rosa.
Despite his utmost efforts at transcendental casuistry, he could find no way to get around Ananke's command without her finding out sooner or later and coming down hard on him.
I answered doubtfully, for somehow all Marais's casuistry, which I thought contemptible, did not convince me that he was sincere.
Another man would have taken refuge in casuistry and told the king that it was not for a pope to be bound to the cardinal's promises, in which contention he would have been supported by the Jesuits.
Their favorite pieces were Sirventes (satirical pieces), love-songs, and Tensons, which last were a sort of dialogue in verse between two poets, who questioned each other on some refined points of love's casuistry.
Whatever the reputation of the Society of Jesus for subtlety of approach and cunning casuistry, Father Augustus Heinzerling, SJ, was one of the most direct and straightforward men anyone knew.