Casuistry - What does it mean?
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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.
* 1995 , Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
(pejorative) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
The difference between casuistry and is:
casuistry
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Noun
- 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.
- “And if you lose?” Diana enunciated, through a thin grin. She meant to extract casuistry ’s penalty in advance.