(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.
Sophistry
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Example Sentences:
(1) But too often, those who deploy the argument, are borrowing from the Bill Clinton school of sophistry: "I did not have racist relations with that religion".
(2) Whatever the mechanisms of the drug-induced carcinogenesis, it is clear that there is a toxicologic hazard, which must be assessed rationally and not by means of sophistry.
(3) It has been their policy for the last 10 years and the commitment could not have been clearer in the Queen's speech that followed the general election (even if the wording of the coalition agreement allowed for some sophistry by opponents of reform).
(4) This sort of sophistry neatly inverts the actual benefactor-beneficiary relationship: for-profit companies are attempting to save money on entry level positions by extracting unpaid labour from a population of vulnerable young people, many of whom are unaware that these arrangements are often illegal.
(5) The Union now host their affiliate team Harrisburg in the quarter finals - prompting a little bit of sophistry from US Soccer as to why the two teams aren't technically affiliated .
(6) Though this is not explicit, it will help slice through the banalities and sophistry that party and campaign spin doctors on both sides seem unable to shake off with the referendum campaign.
(7) What Wisconsin does offer is a transparent illustration of the ideological sophistry and political mendacity driving these attacks.
(8) At best, these arrangements are advantageous legal sophistry.
(9) How can they approve this through the normal processes?” The chair of the London assembly’s budget and performance committee accused Johnson of “sophistry”.
(10) The possibility of exposing the mendacious speeches, populism and sophistry of politics, economics and culture is thrilling.
(11) "For all the sophistry and rhetoric about avoiding violence, how can they reconcile that with being ok with evictions?
(12) People think we just chuck it out there, but there's a huge amount of data sophistry into how we design the campaigns."
(13) This fiasco over PIP eligibility ultimately reveals the sophistry behind the government's disability agenda.
(14) The remainers in the audience saw the sophistry, but no matter.
(15) But it’s precisely this veil of classiness, this veneer of BBC2 sophistication, that brings on the sophistry.
(16) At best this is sophistry and at worst this is misleading, because the NAO report says the Department for Work and Pensions is actively considering a delay to this too.
(17) But he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them … Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.” When these contradictions are rooted in history this sophistry can be neatly buried under time.