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Casuistry Reasoning Moral N Solve Problems Induction I.E

Word casuistry
Definition n. Reasoning used to solve moral problems by induction, i.e., applying theoretical rules from particular instances to other ones.
Perjoratively, used to describe specious reasoning of this sort.
Sentence And yet it would seem [Raskolnikov] had already concluded the whole analysis, in terms of a moral resolution of the question: his casuistry was sharp as a razor, and he no longer found any conscious objections.
Source Crime and Punishment, trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky, I.vi, p. 70

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