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casuistry | incredulous |

As a noun casuistry

is the process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.

As an adjective incredulous is

skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.

casuistry

English

Noun

  • The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.
  • * 1968 , Sidney Monas (translator), Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment 1866.
    • And yet it would seem that the whole analysis he had made, his attempt to find a moral solution to the problem, was complete. His casuistry had been honed to a razor’s edge, and he could no longer think of any objections.
  • * 1995 , Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
    • “And if you lose?” Diana enunciated, through a thin grin. She meant to extract casuistry ’s penalty in advance.
  • (pejorative) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.

    • Synonyms

    * (process of answering practical questions by cases) casuistics * (pejorative) excuse, legalism, rationalization, sophistry

    Related terms

    (terms related to casuistry) * casuist * casuistic * casuistical * casuistically * casuistics

    See also

    * ("casuistry" on Wikipedia)

    incredulous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
  • * 1918 ,
    • Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
  • Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
  • * 2009 , '>citation
    • Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous .
  • * 1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , III.4:
    • Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].
  • * 1984 , , opinion in People v Terrell'', 459 N.E.2d 1337, ] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, ''Criminal Law ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
    • Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

    Derived terms

    * incredulously

    Related terms

    * incredulity * credulous