Overly subtle casuistic reasoning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : casuistic distinctions. From Dictionary.com.
At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:] Reference
The classical casuistic literature of the later Mid - dle Ages was one attempt in this direction. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
Kutb al-Din (from whom I borrow these particulars) introduces some fine and casuistic distinctions. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Logical arguments have attacked war since the dawn of time, yet war has always had its casuistic defenders. From Wordnik.com. [Making Real Peace with the Spirit of John F. Kennedy] Reference
Duplicitous ...no less, mendacious is a good one dissimlulating , casuistic can be used in the sense of sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [Ming Campbell Caught Telling Porkies] Reference
This is a problem that must be analyzed in a casuistic manner in order to help in the development of the area's plan. From Wordnik.com. [CRITICIZES RETIREMENT POLICY] Reference
There was an early development of a widespread casuistic activity which has never ceased to occupy the Hebraic religions. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference
But neither is it just the familiar problem that philosophical theories provide only a rough fit to our casuistic judgements. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Obligation and Authority] Reference
The idea that this is all a response to the post 9/11 policies, with all their corkscrew-like bends, is casuistic, to put it mildly. From Wordnik.com. [Who is to run our foreign policy?] Reference
But this is all pretty casuistic: We move from case to case without direct consideration of what the objectionable features of adultery are. From Wordnik.com. [Porndultery] Reference
Besides, he wrote Talmudic commentaries and casuistic collections. From Wordnik.com. [Rashi]
Talmudists, the object of casuistic interpretation and legendary adornment. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history] Reference
Puritans in practice, however it may have been for masters of casuistic theology. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books First Series] Reference
It is largely casuistic, as might be expected from the manner of its early transmission. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
In the end, thanks to the casuistic intervention of Portia (disguised as a learned jurist). From Wordnik.com. Reference
That this instruction is necessarily, though not exclusively, casuistic, was mentioned above. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
He is a casuistic moralist, if not a Shorter Catechist, as Mr Henley put it in his clever sonnet. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
On the other, practical mysticism, cherished into strength by a disgusting system of casuistic ethics. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
Characteristic of this Bull is the casuistic manner in which the prescriptions of the rule are treated. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
It could not be discussed without that admixture of legality and ethics which delights a casuistic intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
This alternative is suspicious enough: in itself it contains a casuistic question concerning the value of the two cases. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference
Palestinian Talmud the text of the Mishna is taken sentence by sentence, and explained with increasingly casuistic acumen. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
If that despotic and casuistic recluse could have known what my heart and soul are like, she would have advised you differently. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
And then he proceeded to bring up in detail casuistic objections on the score of a young girl's modesty; all of which fell flat on. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
Following out this idea, he discusses in a casuistic form food and drink, dress and love of finery, bodily exercises and social conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
"Chirurgia magna" (Ars completa), finished in 1296, is full of casuistic notes and shows us the author as an equally careful and lucky operator. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Then with the rise of the visionary projects just mentioned the gravest doubts began to agitate the fertile and casuistic mind of the Lady Superior. From Wordnik.com. [Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire] Reference
"scribe", the casuistic interpreter of the Law; and Israel, in its sacred isolation, looked down upon the rest of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Perhaps you might put on your casuistic thinking caps and excogitate some credible response, lest they be taken for dunce’s cornets. From Wordnik.com. [LawIsCool Exclusive: Mark Steyn Exists : Law is Cool] Reference
He did it in casuistic way. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson: A Life] Reference
Their method is casuistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
The one, the Halaka, was legal and casuistic: the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
1347), which treated casuistic subjects alphabetically, and was the first of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
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