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Definitions of casuistry in various dictionaries:
noun - argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
noun - moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.
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Jan 13 2014 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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Jul 18 2002 The Times - Concise |
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the use of clever arguments to trick people |
Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead. |
The determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that illustrate general ethical rules. |
The use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions sophistry. |
The resolving of moral problems by the application of theoretical rules. |
the resolving of moral problems by the application of theoretical rules. |
the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions sophistry. |
moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas |
argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading |
Casuistry description |
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Casuistry () 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 used to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending theoretical rules from particular instances and applying these rules to new instances. The term is also commonly used as a pejorative to criticize the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions (see sophistry). * The agreed meaning of "casuistry" is in flux. The term can be used either to describe a presumably acceptable form of reasoning or a form of reasoning that is inherently unsound and deceptive. Most or all philosophical dictionaries list the neutral sense as the first or only definition. On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary states that the word "[o]ften (and perhaps originally) applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of |