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What does casuistry mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
  2. (pejorative) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
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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.

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