What's the difference between casuist and sophist?
Casuist
Definition:
(n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
(v. i.) To play the casuist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the complaint is so rare the casuistic of Boerhaave's-syndrome is described in connection with pyloric stenosis.
(2) In the present paper on the basis of casuistic contributions is reported on occasionally appearing differential-diagnostic difficulties between the presence of a juxtavesical ureterolith and a vesical tumour.
(3) By means of a casuistic about successful course of pregnancy and labour by a patient with methaemoglobinemia (HbM Leipzig II) is reported.
(4) On the basis of 3 casuistics the in most cases medicamentous allergic etiology of chronic eosinophilic lung infiltrates, their diagnosis and differential diagnosis is discussed.
(5) In this article these processes will be clearly shown with casuistic material.
(6) The casuistics refers to 1646 cases equal to 20,5% of vaginal trichomoniasis in a total of 7996 pap tests examined in the service of Anatomy and Histology Pathology in the hospital of Terni.
(7) The results correspond to the medium statistical level of the various casuistics analyzed for comparison.
(8) Casuistry is defined, its relationship to rhetorical reasoning and its interpretation of cases, by employing three terms that, while they are not employed by the classical rhetoricians and casuists, conform, in a general way, to the features of their work.
(9) Casuistic report dealing with the observation of an inverted papilloma arising from the pars prostatica urethrae.
(10) The carcinogenity of benzene is discussed on the basis of a survey of medical literature on epidemiological studies, casuistic contributions and experimental investigations in animals.
(11) In this casuistic contribution a female patient is discussed for whom an adequate psychopathological and diagnostic assessment is very difficult to obtain.
(12) Most reports have however, been casuistic or uncontrolled.
(13) The paper reports on the casuistics of the colon cancer in the Clinic of Surgery of the "Griviţa" Clinical Hospital, for 21 years (1966-1986) with emphasis on the situs peculiarities on the right and left colon.
(14) For elucidation of the result of the clinical treatment two casuistic cases are described.
(15) Data suggests the existence of a relatively stable form of G-6-PD that could explain the dissociation between the incidence of deficit in G-6-PD level in the general population and the reduced casuist of favism reported in our literature.
(16) We present the casuistic of seven cases which have occurred over the last 15 years in our hospital and compare our experience with those of the literature.
(17) Two casuistic descriptions of cases with phlebographically and Doppler-sonographically ascertained insufficiency of the conductive veins of the leg are demonstrated.
(18) For this reason, the diagnostic problems, therapeutic possibilities and prognosis were explained with the help of this casuistic contribution.
(19) Casuistics of three children two of whom were sibs are reported in detail to demonstrate the characteristics of neonatal diabetes mellitus.
(20) According to a casuistic information pathophysiology, diagnostic procedure and therapeutical possibilities, microsurgical or by local fibrinolysis, are discussed.
Sophist
Definition:
(n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
(n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(2) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(3) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
(4) While simple assays of complex I activity are unlikely to be useful in the preclinical detection of Parkinson's disease, other more sophisticated physical-chemical approaches including detection of free radical damage may have utility.
(5) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(6) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
(7) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
(8) A simple multiband volume control is expected to provide much of the benefit of more sophisticated systems without the need for separate estimation of input speech and noise spectra.
(9) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
(10) The laws of functioning applicable to these approaches are those coming from liberal and planified economical theories while health planning has developed more and more sophisticated and convincing methodologies.
(11) Therefore, controlled hypotension, being a sophisticated technique, requires handling by an experienced anesthetist well aware of contraindications and the need for adequate monitoring for prevention of tissue ischemia.
(12) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(13) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
(14) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(15) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
(16) This validity coefficient turned out to be so high (r = 0.967) that it does not seem necessary to adopt a more sophisticated method, despite a few demonstrable shortcomings of the one in use.
(17) The comparison of drug responder and non-responder group has also been made more meaningful by the availability of more reliable methods of assessing clinical phenomena, more sophisticated diagnostic models and the introduction of other biological measures.
(18) The environment in the intensive therapy units (ITUs) has thus become increasingly sophisticated with the use of highly specialised equipment.
(19) Attempts to save parts of teeth go back 100 years or more, but it is the increased predictability of success of endodontic therapy and the increased sophistication of periodontal treatment that have given us the means to save molars with furcation problems that, otherwise, would be lost.
(20) The monitoring equipment gets more sophisticated and easier to use month by month.