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Categories: Jurisprudence, Catholic casuists, Scholasticism, Legal reasoning, Common law

casuistry cases of conscience Casualist casuistic casuistic reasoning

Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas WordNet 3.0

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Moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In ethics, casuistry is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. Wikipedia

Reasoning by extrapolation Wikidata

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

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