casuistry

casuistry has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
• a.. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
• n.. moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
• n.. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading