(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report on the casuistry of aorto-coronary by-pass operations they performed between April 1971 and December 1974, discussing the criteria which indicate the necessity of operating, the principles of the operative techniques, and the results obtained.
(2) An alternative approach is recommended that involves interpreting moral experience by means once associated with the rhetorical arts--practical reasoning, hermeneutics, casuistry, and thick description.
(3) Anatomy, injury-mechanism and classification will be illustrated with a casuistry of the rate isolated luxation of the ulnar head.
(4) 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.
(5) In one part of this casuistry, normal and primitive hypogonadics, we have estimated the response to the intravenous administration of Gn-RH.
(6) They reported the direct experience of personal casuistry and called attention on multiple aspects of preventive medicine.
(7) Beside a casuistry the article contains references to prompt measures--especially for the first-aid doctor-and following tasks for public hygienic executive organs.
(8) Analysing the casuistry of 210 patients with basilar impression, the author has enumerated the type and frequency of the associated anomalies and looked for correlations between them and the various clinical syndromes.
(9) and discusses some problems with casuistry as an 'anti-theoretical' method.
(10) The best known models are those of deductivism, casuistry, and principlism (under one, rather limited interpretation).
(11) The secretion values of the two seric gonadotropins and of plasmatic Testosterone have been estimated in a casuistry of normal males, 114 subjects, subdivided in groups of 8 to 95 years of age.
(12) After a thorough discussion of the etiopathologic factors, there are cited the most common histotypes of MBC, as well as the typical clinical aspects, of basic importance for the compilation of the diagnostic inquiry, which, in uncertainty, makes use of the acuaspiration and of the excisional biopsy, there is referred on the present therapeutic trends, and results of their casuistry are exposed.
(13) However, the parametres considered are quite useful for indicating the variations of ventricular distensibility in homogenous casuistries and are therefore comparable.
(14) On the basis of some casuistries forensic and criminalistic aspects of infanticides will be discussed.
(15) The acute syndroms of the brainstem of cerebral injuried newborns by the birth trauma (casuistry).
(16) In the casuistry are included two cases of the complete perforation of the right ventricle (one of which was fatal) and four cases of partial perforation; in another subject a papillary muscle was perforated.
(17) In conclusion, casuistry is the exercise of prudential or practical reasoning in recognition of the relationship between maxims, circumstances and topics, as well as the relationship of paradigms to analogous cases.
(18) The Authors point out the doppler usefulness for the study of obstructive cerebrovascular pathology specially of the carotids with personal short casuistry.
(19) Combined involvement of the heart, diaphragm, pleura is a casuistry.
(20) The analysis of the casuistry showed predominantly gangliae, bursae and Baker's cysts.
Sophism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".