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Перевод: casuistry

[существительное]
казуистика ; игра словами; софистика

Тезаурус:

1. Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level.
2. These conditions also entail an independent judiciary which performs a particular type of deliberative role which Oakeshott calls "an exercise in retrospective casuistry".
3. This is not the keeping of the letter by escaping through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry.
4. Faced with this combination of forced scrupulosity and ingenious casuistry it is hard to believe that gratuities were an entirely natural and accepted part of the system.
5. There, at Portmore, Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work, Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures, Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print.
6. The terrible times had rendered individuals impotent; many Jews consoled themselves by clinging to any available straw and concealed themselves behind bastions of casuistry.
7. Certainly, Mr Patten, a Roman Catholic, ought to be able to appreciate casuistry.
8. The considerable public and social implications of this piece of casuistry require no comment.
9. These statements added little to what Arafat had already said but such casuistry, the decision to limit official contact with the PLO to the US embassy in Tunis, and the warning that any terrorist incident attributable to a PLO faction would render US recognition of the PLO void, suggested that the outgoing US administration had acted with considerable reluctance.
10. The Minister was engaged in nothing more or less than casuistry.
11. A secret protocol of the Nazi-Soviet pact, designating German and Soviet spheres of influence in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, highlights in retrospect the casuistry of Aragon's analysis and the inevitability of Nizan's departure from the PCF.
12. The moral law had been covered with casuistry and hypocrisy.
13. True, it is an altruism grounded in selfishness, but that need not bother us (it can only lead into the usual teenage casuistry about altruism always being ultimately selfish).