casuistry (noun)

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• 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 — 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 — I noun behaviorism, deontology, empiricism, ethical philosophy, ethology, idealism, moral science, perfectionism, sophistry, utilitarianism II index duplicity, ethics, sophistry Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

• casuistry — noun (plural ries) Date: 1723 1. a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrine 2. specious argument …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• casuistry — noun (U) formal the use of clever but often false arguments to answer moral or legal questions …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• casuistry — noun 1. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading • Derivationally related forms: ↑casuistic, ↑casuist • Hypernyms: ↑argumentation, ↑logical argument, ↑argument, ↑line of reasoning, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• casuistry — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sophistry, delusion, evasion; see fallacy 1 , lie 1 , trick 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Plausible but invalid reasoning: fallacy, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness. See CORRECT, TRUE …   English dictionary for students

• casuistry — ca|su|ist|ry [ kæʒuıstri ] noun uncount VERY FORMAL the use of clever arguments, especially on moral issues, to try to make someone believe something that is not true …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• casuistry — UK [ˈkæzjuɪstrɪ] / US [ˈkæʒuɪstrɪ] noun [uncountable] very formal the use of clever arguments, especially on moral issues, to try to make someone believe something that is not true …   English dictionary

• casuistry — /ˈkæʒjuəstri / (say kazhyoohuhstree) noun (plural casuistries) the application, or, from an outside point of view, misapplication, of general ethical principles to particular cases of conscience or conduct …  

• casuist — 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