But if casuistry hadn't looked any further than the singularity of such cases, their list would have grown unmanageably. |
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. |
Medieval scholasticism has continued to fuel contemporary debates on euthanasia and abortion and it has helped revive casuistry. |
These abstract principles are then applied to particular cases through a complex process called, of course, casuistry. |
The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness. |
If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic. |