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Another word for casuistry

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Noun

  1. Plausible but invalid reasoning

    See also:

    correct

    true

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Another word for casuistry

Noun
      1. Sophism
      2. Plausible but fallacious argumentation.
      3. Unsound or misleading but clever, plausible, and subtle argument or reasoning
      1. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
      2. (Psychiatry) A false, persistent belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary
      3. A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
      1. The act or an instance of evading.
      2. An evading; specif., an avoiding of a duty, question, etc. by deceit or cleverness
      3. A means of evading; a subterfuge.
    See also:

    fallacy

    lie

    trick

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Sentence Examples

  • Very soon, however, these relics of casuistry were swept away by the rising tide of common-sense.

  • casuistry found no place, because there were no sacred books.

  • But common-sense and conscience are quite as definite guides as logic or authority; and there seems no good reason for refusing to give the name of casuistry to their operations.

  • The casuistry of primitive man is uncompromisingly legal.

  • It was inevitable that, in proportion as this casuistry assumed the character of a systematic penal jurisprudence, its precise determination of the limits between the prohibited and the allowable, with all doubtful points closely scrutinized and illustrated by fictitious cases, would have a tendency to weaken the moral sensibilities of ordinary minds; the greater the industry spent in deducing conclusions from the diverse authorities, the greater necessarily became the number of points on which doctors disagreed; and the central authority that might have repressed serious divergences was wanting in the period of moral weakness'- that the church went through after the death of Boniface Viii.

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