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

Let them be called respectively the psychological question, the metaphysical question, and the casuistic question.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Nietzsche in one of his earliest works examines Wagner's theory and amplifies it by a rather casuistic interpretation of the evolution of art.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

But in the course of time the casuistic method, originally a mere pastime, became the approved method of study, and produced what is known as pilpul.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.