Other Word Forms
- casuistically adverb
- noncasuistic adjective
- noncasuistical adjective
- noncasuistically adverb
- overcasuistic adjective
- overcasuistical adjective
- overcasuistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of casuistic
Example Sentences
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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
Her casuistic responses which were asked for in two moral situations, verbally presented, Test XXI, were rather vacillating, but evidently sound.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
No single abstract principle can be so used as to yield to the philosopher anything like a scientifically accurate and genuinely useful casuistic scale.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
So far then, and up to date, the casuistic scale is made for the philosopher already far better than he can ever make it for himself.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
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