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Casuistry is a way of answering a moral or legal question by looking very closely at one case, often with clever distinctions. Priests and lawyers used to do this: in this exact situation, is it wrong? Though actually, when people use the word now they nearly always mean it as a complaint. They are saying the arguments are too clever, and probably false — a way to wriggle around a rule while pretending to follow it. So it is a formal, slightly word, more at home in essays than in talk. It does not mean 'being casual'. Casual and casuistry only look a little alike.
決疑論；帶貶義時指詭辯、強詞奪理
組成From casuist (a person who argues from cases) + -ry, the ending that names a practice or a kind of talk.
同家族的字
- casuistthe person; this word is casuist plus -ry
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
casuistrynoun/ˈkæzjuːɪstɹi/
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The process of answering practical questions by means of interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
- Cages for Gnats, and Chains to Yoak a Flea; Dry'd Butterflies, and Tomes of Caſuiſtry
- The letters of Margarita were all that the fondest lover could desire, the eye of a poet linger on, but they did not contain the casuistry which could lead Glentworth to renounce a faith which he had now been led to examine in a manner he had certainly never done before.
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derogatoryAn intricate argument, particularly
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derogatoryAn intricate argument, particularly
- I felt it was hopeless to argue against casuistry of this nature, which, if it were carried to its logical conclusion, would absolutely destroy all morality, as we understand it.
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derogatoryAn intricate argument, particularly
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。