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Casuistry Moderate

Casuistry has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
argumentation ethics
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
probabilism
Rhyming Words
try extry autry metry nitry iatry latry entry retry pantry sextry bantry peltry gantry hostry sultry mistry vintry vestry ometry
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