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casuistry
noun
(ca-su-ist-ry)
a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrine
casuistry
noun
(ca-su-ist-ry)
specious argument : rationalization
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sophistry
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sophist
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sophism
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legalism
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scholasticism
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dissimulation
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sophistic
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logical fallacy
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speciousness
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metaphysic
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hermeneutics
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empiricism
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mendacity
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imposture
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historicism
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supernaturalism
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harlotry
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teleology
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scientism
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incommensurability
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disingenuity
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roguery
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syllogisms
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obtuseness
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knavery
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ritualism
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unreason
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prolixity
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reification
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pedantry
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subjectivism
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wishfulness
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indirectness
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monism
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priggishness
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malignity
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charlatanry
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pompousness
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nominalism
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sentimentalism
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conjuration
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reductionism
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mesmerism
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attitudinizing
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platonism
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presumptuousness
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absoluteness
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anthropocentrism
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deism
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cogito
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inexactitude
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arrogation
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literalism
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diabolism
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hegelian dialectic
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enormities
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gnosticism
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animality
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weltanschauung
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dogmatist
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illogic
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journalese
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punctiliousness
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instrumentalism
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blitheness
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illogicality
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ascription
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personalism
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intellectuality
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turpitude
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majoritarianism
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logical positivism
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pietism
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monarchism
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reactionism
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tendentiousness
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circumlocutions
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barbarisms
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revisionism
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doublethink
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judeophobia
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orientalism
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gratuitousness
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illusionism
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dogmatism
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lunacies
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papal infallibility
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presuppositions
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abjection
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deracination
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intellectualization
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moralizer
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heterodoxy
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tautology
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vulgarisation
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irrationalism
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buncombe
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exculpation
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bolshevism
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pantheism
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casuistry
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