Casuistry

/kˈaʒuːˌɪstɹi/

/kˈæʒuːˌɪstɹi/

[noun]

Casuistry

[NOUN]

moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas

the practice of unsound reasoning and falsely arguing questions in a clever way

Examples

1. The great Chinese parabola will also be able to give a decisive impulse to the discovery of new pulsars, objects whose casuistry needs to be expanded to provide important indications on all that we still do not know about black holes and gravitational waves.

2. However, the casuistry is so vast that it allows a rational subdivision of the episodes into at least three categories: disasters predicted but which did not occur, disasters narrowly avoided, and disasters that actually occurred and were then kept secret.

3. In the end, it is understood that to get to a casuistry able to provide reliable data on the real rate of impact of meteoroids and comets on Jupiter, it will be necessary to monitor the planet constantly, and in this type of research could be the amateurs to do the lion's share.