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n. Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.

n. The determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that illustrate general ethical rules.

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

n. A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.

adj. 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 Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.

adj. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

n. In ethics, the solution of special problems of right and duty by the application of general ethical principles or theological dogmas; the answering of questions of conscience.

n. Hence Over-subtle and dishonest reasoning; sophistry.

n. In medicine, a recent, rare, and improper use for casuistics.

n. moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas

n. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

"Is not what they call casuistry a science among Roman"

argument    line of reasoning    logical argument    argumentation    line   

prevarication    rationalization    excuse    legalism    casuistics   

deontology    utilitarianism    sophistry    plead    chicane    tergiversation    subterfuge    wiles    sophism    misrepresentation