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Casuistry vs. Sophistry — What's the Difference?

Casuistry vs. Sophistry — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Casuistry and Sophistry

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Casuistry

Casuistry ( KAZ-yoo-is-tree) is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending theoretical rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. This method occurs in applied ethics and jurisprudence.

Sophistry

Plausible but fallacious argumentation.

Casuistry

Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.

Sophistry

A plausible but misleading or fallacious argument.

Casuistry

The determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that illustrate general ethical rules.
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Sophistry

The actions or arguments of a sophist.

Casuistry

The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.

Sophistry

(uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.

Casuistry

(pejorative) A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.

Sophistry

(countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so; a sophism.

Casuistry

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.
The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry.
Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule).

Sophistry

The art or process of reasoning; logic.

Casuistry

Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

Sophistry

The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Casuistry

Argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

Sophistry

A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Casuistry

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

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