कोई है जिसका तर्क सूक्ष्म और अक्सर विशिष्ट है

Noun:

कैस्युइस्ट,

casuists's Usage Examples:

Suppose, for instance, that some casuists held it wrong to dance on Sunday, while others held it perfectly lawful.

Like all casuists, he took for granted that morality was a recondite science, beyond the reach of all but the learned.

The Anglican casuists are discussed in Whewell, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (London, 1862).

For the Roman Catholic casuists see Dellinger and Reusch, Moralstreitigkeiten im siebzehnten Jahrhundert (2 vols., Nordlingen, 1889), and various articles ("Casuistik," "Ethik," "Moralsysteme," 'c.) in Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexicon (Freiburg, 1880-1896).

There is an excellent study of the ancient casuists by M.

Conscience is the best of casuists; it is only when men wish to cheat it that they fly to logical quibbles."

Thus caught between two fires the casuists developed a highly ingenious method, not unlike that of the Roman Stoics, for eviscerating the substance of a rule while leaving its shadow carefully intact.

These deal with the casuists of the Counter - Reformation in the spirit of Milton, laying especial stress on the artificiality of their methods and the laxity of their results.

Compare the fine distinctions drawn by the casuists and attacked by Pascal in the twelfth of the Provincial Letters.

It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise."

casuists's Meaning':

someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious