casuistic
- adjective
- /ˌkæʒuˈɪstɪk/
- Formal
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casuístico
- But for many UP partisans, these casuistic distinctions were irrelevant; for them, the death of Chilean democracy and the individual deaths of their friends and fellow militants were not separable issues.
Examples
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The lawyer used a casuistic approach to argue the case, focusing on specific examples rather than general rules.
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I think the point is that it's casuistic.
Blog text (30) -
Often that politicization is perfectly justifiable, but such justification must be casuistic, not universal.
Blog text (30) -
We also should note, as is standard in casuistic legal formulation, that the law cannot address the issue of whether the proscribed action took place; the situation is stated hypothetically.
Academic text (1991) -
Thus, the erotic becomes the obscene and the pornographic, while the Socratic becomes the sophistic and casuistic.
Academic text (2002) -
This is like taking armchair quarterbacking or backseat driving and refining it to an exquisitely casuistic and fallacious fine art.
Blog text (3) -
Similarly, on the level of politics, Gagnepain will speak of synallactic, anallactic, and choral aims of reason; on the level of normative behavior, he will speak of the casuistic, ascetic, and heroic aims of reason.
Academic text (1994) -
One must choose between alternative ways of specifying principles, and this choice requires a prior decision concerning how priorities ought to be assigned to the conflicting ethical principles in the context of the case in question; and (2) the actual work in the assigning of priorities is not done by the specification itself, but by some other method or methods, which can include casuistic reasoning. (2000, 327)
Academic text (2016) -
In a casuistic analysis, we evaluate how ethical principles apply to real-life situations.
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Her casuistic reasoning allowed for a nuanced understanding of the moral dilemmas faced by the community.
Synonyms
Using overly clever or detailed arguments to solve moral problems
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Casuistic comes from the Latin word casus, meaning 'case' or 'event'. So casuistic describes a way of thinking that solves moral problems by looking at each specific 'case' rather than only following general rules.
