casuistic
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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
If the heap of things demanded proved on inspection less chaotic than at first they seemed, if they furnished their own relative test and measure, then the casuistic problem would be solved.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
The last fundamental question in Ethics was, it will be remembered, the casuistic question.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
