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Casuistry — (pronEng|ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to case based reasoning. Casuistry is used in juridical and ethical discussions of law and ethics, and often is a critique of principle based reasoning. [… … Wikipedia
Casuistry — • The application of general principles of morality to definite and concrete cases of human activity, for the purpose, primarily, of determining what one ought to do, or ought not to do, or what one may do or leave undone as one pleases; and for… … Catholic encyclopedia
Casuistry — Cas u*ist*ry, a. 1. 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
casuistry — sophistry, sophism, *fallacy … New Dictionary of Synonyms
casuistry — [n] overgeneral reasoning chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick; concepts 54,63 … New thesaurus
casuistry — ► NOUN ▪ the use of clever but false reasoning, especially in relation to moral issues. DERIVATIVES casuist noun casuistic adjective casuistical adjective. ORIGIN from Spanish casuista, from Latin casus fall, chance, occurrence … English terms dictionary
casuistry — [kazh′o͞o is trē] n. pl. casuistries [ CASUIST + RY] 1. the application of general principles of ethics to specific problems of right and wrong in conduct, in order to solve or clarify them 2. subtle but misleading or false reasoning; sophistry,… … English World dictionary
casuistry — noun [kəˈsuɪstri/|[ˈkæʒuːɨstri/ a) The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics. And yet it would seem that the whole analysis he had made, his attempt to find… … Wiktionary
casuistry — (Lat., casus, a case) The approach to ethical problems in which the circumstances of cases affect the application of general rules; a casuist is one who distinguishes and marshals the relevance of different cases and rules. The Resolutiones… … Philosophy dictionary
casuistry — [[t]kæ̱zjuɪstri, AM kæ̱ʒu [/t]] N UNCOUNT (disapproval) Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people. [FORMAL] … English dictionary
