Casuistry Synonyms

kăzho͝o-ĭ-strē
Plausible but invalid reasoning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sophistry
  2. fallacy
  3. delusion
  4. evasion
  5. sophism
  6. chicanery
  7. deceit
  8. speciousness
  9. spuriousness
  10. jesuitism
  11. eudaemonics

Words Related to Casuistry

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Casuistry Sentence Examples

  • However, I'm not convinced of such casuistry because I'm not convinced that self-regard and egocentrism are exactly the same thing.

  • The casuistry of primitive man is uncompromisingly legal.

  • It is only under the head of casuistry that ethics has been much cultivated as a separate science.

  • 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.

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

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